(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:00:19

Dep"re*ca*to*ry (?), a. [L. deprecatorius.]

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.

Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

 

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