| 1. | To deprecate the chief, and save the host. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues and to deprecate the vices of mankind. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 3. | Master Cruncher who was in his shirt took this very ill, and, turning to his mother, strongly deprecated any praying away of his personal board. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the affected airs of a flattered monster. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Prudence strongly deprecates all outrage or excess but Meliboeus insists that he cannot see that it might greatly harm him though he took a vengeance, for he is richer and mightier than his enemies, and all things obey money. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |