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Meanings of derogate in English
To attack falsely or with malicious intent the good name and reputation of someone.
Usage of derogate in English
1
But is it possible to derogate from the necessary laws of existence?
2
You cannot derogate from the value of reason without using reason.
3
But by his marriage he might either support or derogate from these honours.
4
A man with such a nature as yours should not derogate so far.
5
Nay, would it not rather seem to derogate from those attributes?
6
Independent of other objections, it would derogate from the dignity of the American character.
7
How does that derogate in any wise from her excellence?
8
Not that I derogate from the use of history.
9
Nor will this at all derogate from their glory.
10
The honor we bear to Christ does not derogate from the honor we bear to God.
11
By the phrase 'fortune,' I mean not in the smallest degree to derogate from his merit.
12
Our language will not lapse or derogate while this prose stands for appeal: I lingered .
13
New powers have also been quietly inserted for the government to derogate from high standards at will.
14
Savages in general, and particularly the Maories, have a notion of dignity from which they never derogate.
15
From that character I will never derogate.
16
It would be implemented by introducing a "presumption to derogate" from the ECHR in warfare.
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