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noun a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster
noun the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
originFrom Middle French deprecation (French: déprécation), from Latin dēprecātiōnem, from dēprecātiō (“deprecation, invocation”), from dēprecor (“to avert, warn off; to deprecate”).
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