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  1. transitive verb To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn: "Somehow we had to master events, not simply deplore them” (Henry A. Kissinger).
  2. transitive verb To express sorrow or grief over.
  3. transitive verb To regret; bemoan.

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  • There are who bid this music sound no more, And you can hear them, nor defend--deplore! —  Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
  • I hear my Prophet deplore, as his predecessors did, the deaf ear and the gross heart of his people, and threaten to shut his lips; but, happily, this he cannot do, any more than could they. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • But even now, faced with the prospective triumph of everything they profess to deplore, they remain passive, hesitant, divided, confused - filled with noble appetites but all unwilling to risk moving toward the highlands where nobility can be satisfied. —  Latest Articles
  • It was all about how awful violence is -- lots and lots of violence for you to deplore, and the hero who hated it but was really good at it, talk about Hollywood having their cake and eating it too. —  The Volokh Conspiracy
  • It was all about how awful violence is - lots and lots of violence for you to deplore, and the hero who hated it but was really good at it, talk about Hollywood having their cake and eating it too. —  Libertarian Blog Place
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deplore:   deplored ·  deploring ·  deplores
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  1. French déplorer, lament, regret, from Latin dēplōrāre : dē-, de- + plōrāre, to wail.

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  1. = Old French depleurer, deplourer, French déplorer = Spanish Portuguese deplorar = Italian deplorare, from Latin deplorare, lament over, bewail, from de- + plorare, wail, weep aloud; origin uncertain. Cf. implore.
 

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