What's the difference between deprecatory and depreciatory?
Deprecatory
Definition:
(a.) Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results were consistent with the literature concerning normative bereavement reactions; that is, although bereaved people reported several features associated with depression, the likelihood of self-deprecatory cognitions was no greater among them than among control participants.
(2) Self-deprecatory humour is not usually in the job description of judges in the supreme court, least of all, perhaps, in its president.
(3) It is suggested that educators and clinicians encourage youth to validate social hypotheses in order to promote the dissolution of the imaginary audience, especially of those who are shy and display self-deprecatory tendencies.
(4) "He is a very honourable person, hugely clever, self-deprecatory and warm.
(5) Childhood depression is an episodic disorder characterized by 10 criteria, symptoms of dysphoric mood, self-deprecatory ideation, agitation, loss of energy, reduced socialization, altered school performance, altered school attitude, sleep disturbance, appetite disturbance, and somatic compliants persisting for at least one month.
(6) Every other day she awakened feeling sad with low energy, decreased appetite, fatigue, diminished enjoyment of normal activities, increased irritability, occasional self-deprecatory thoughts, and difficulty concentrating.
(7) Steely, self-deprecatory, unbudgable when it comes to truthfulness, Ross is like a character from John le Carré.
(8) His self-deprecatory account of the February outbreak conveys his style of writing: Tuesday, 21 Feb 1917.
(9) In a gently self-deprecatory speech announcing a press gallery journalism award this week (boy, he must have really felt like doing that), Abbott noted that journalism was one of only a few professions held in lower esteem that politics, and then joked: “Some might say I am contributing to closing that gap.” But it is precisely because of the budget’s broken promises, on top of the underlying general scepticism about the truthfulness of all politicians, that his budget sell has been so spectacularly unsuccessful.
Depreciatory
Definition:
(a.) Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.