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noun
Derogation  n.  
1.
The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; followed by of, from, or to. "I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion." "He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep."
2.
(Stock Exch.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.





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"Derogation" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, as if it were a derogation from the merits of this paper, that it contains nothing new; that it only states grounds of proceeding, and presses topics of argument, which had often been stated and pressed before. But it was not the object of the Declaration to produce any thing new. It was not to invent reasons ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... governed. It is a possession of the governed avowedly for the good of the governors. Aristocracy uses the strong for the service of the weak; slavery uses the weak for the service of the strong. It is no derogation to man as a spiritual being, as Carlyle firmly believed he was, that he should be ruled and guided for his own good like a child—for a child who is always ruled and guided we regard as the very type of spiritual existence. But it is a derogation and an absolute contradiction ...
— Twelve Types • G.K. Chesterton
... her head dolefully, and admitted that in Miss Pew's social code such a derogation from maiden dignity would be, in a manner, death—an offence beyond ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... gold. Of the thirty, the greater number were soldiers and sailors, with a few gentlemen, that is to say, men of the sword, born within the pale of nobility, who at home could neither labor nor trade without derogation from their rank. For a time they busied themselves with finishing their fort, and, this done, set forth in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... from any particular view which reason may show as the best supported, I must firmly protest against any assumed title in an opponent to pronounce what these are. The first object is to ascertain truth. No truth can be derogatory to the presumed fountain of all truth. The derogation must lie in the erroneous construction which a weak human creature puts upon the truth. And practically it is the true infidel state of mind which prompts apprehension regarding any fact of nature, or any ...
— An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" • Anonymous


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