and, out of deference to our own deprecated (and a grandmother and mother who were english teachers):

• Deprecate: To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.

  His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it. --Sir W. Scott.

• Depreciate: To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. --Addison.

  Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. --Cudworth.

  To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. --Burke.

  Syn: To decry; disparage; traduce; lower; detract; underrate.

(from The Exploding Dictionary )

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