Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dispraise \Dis*praise"\, n. [Cf. OF. despris. See {Dispraise},
   v. t.]
   The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach;
   disparagement. --Dryden.

         In praise and in dispraise the same.     --Tennyson.

Dispraise \Dis*praise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispraised}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Dispraising}.] [OE. dispreisen, OF. desprisier,
   despreisier, F. d['e]priser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + prisier,
   F. priser, to prize, praise. See {Praise}, and cf.
   {Disprize}, {Depreciate}.]
   To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or
   some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.

         Dispraising the power of his adversaries. --Chaucer.

         I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked
         might not fall in love with him.         --Shak.

Source : WordNet®

dispraise
     n : the act of speaking contemptuously of [syn: {disparagement}]