Verb
Deprecation– to express earnest disapproval of.
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Defination 2. to urge reasons against; protest against (ascheme, purpose, etc.).
The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation. “We really must do something about it, Judge. I’d be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we’ve got to do something.”
The narrator was showing the disapproval and wanted to do something about it when he states Judge we have to do something about it.
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