depreciatives
English
Noun
depreciatives
- plural of depreciative
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 285:
- He has embodied a general system of depreciatives, out of which he extracts most 'strange contents.' I never yet heard him allow merit to man, woman or child;...