Noah Webster's Dictionary (v. t.) To pray or hope against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.

Multi-Version Concordance Deprecate (1 Occurrence) Acts 25:11 If then I have done any wrong and committed anything worthy of death, I do not deprecate dying; but if there is nothing of those things of which they accuse me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar. (DBY YLT)