Other forms: deplored, deploring, deplores
To deplore is to feel and express strong disapproval. Deplore the violence, we deplore this, deeply deplored.
It is the standard verb of official statements, where deploring something is what a government does instead of acting. The Latin means to weep over, which is a great deal more feeling than the modern use carries.
1verbdeploreTo feel and express strong disapproval.
“We deplore violence of every kind, whoever commits it.”
deplore is a condemning.
Latin deplorare means to weep over, from de- plus plorare, to wail.
Latin
dēplōrāre — to lament over, bewail
Old French
deplorer
Middle French
déplorer
English, today
deplore
From Middle French déplorer, from Old French deplorer, from Latin dēplōrāre (“to lament over, bewail”), from dē- + plōrāre; origin uncertain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA