#322 deprecate

deprecate- to express disapproval of; protest against; to depreciate a person's character; belittle

C17 from Latin deprecari to avert, ward off by entreaty

deprecatory adj; deprecation noun

At the same time, an increasingly fashionable "spirituality," vaguely influenced by eastern religions and (less consciously) by our own Gnostic heritage, tends to deprecate the body and all material existence as ultimately illusory.

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