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Writers often employ the word "deplore" to infuse their narratives with a sense of heartfelt regret, moral disapproval, or sorrow over misfortune. In many works, it functions as a tool to articulate a nuanced emotional response—ranging from the ironic censure of abstract absurdities, as seen when a geometric anomaly is lamented in Flatland ([1]), to the poignant mourning of personal loss found in Fox's Book of Martyrs ([2]). In classical epics like the Iliad, its use underscores the profound tragedy and inevitability of fate ([3], [4], [5]), while in political and social treatises it emerges as a marker of ethical judgment and societal critique ([6]). This varied deployment across genres and eras highlights how authors harness "deplore" to intensify tone and underscore dismay over both individual sorrows and larger injustices.
  1. Or again, why blame a lying, thievish Isosceles when you ought rather to deplore the incurable inequality of his sides?
    — from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  2. He has left a widow to deplore his fate, and deplore his loss.
    — from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
  3. One hero's loss too tamely you deplore, Be still yourselves, and ye shall need no more.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  4. my rashness I deplore; These shafts, once fatal, carry death no more.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  5. The horses of Achilles deplore the loss of Patroclus: Jupiter covers his body with a thick darkness: the noble prayer of Ajax on that occasion.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  6. Some of us may welcome such prospects and some of us deplore them.
    — from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

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