derogation

4 definitions found

derogation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Derogation \Der`o*ga"tion\, n. [L. derogatio: cf. F.
     d['e]rogation.]
     1. The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in
        value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; --
        followed by of, from, or to.
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              I hope it is no derogation to the Christian
              religion.                             --Locke.
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              He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be
              seen to weep.                         --F. W.
                                                    Robertson.
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     2. (Stock Exch.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a
        contract for a sale of stocks.
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derogation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  derogation
      n 1: a communication that belittles somebody or something [syn:
           disparagement, depreciation, derogation]
      2: (law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law;
         a partial repeal or abolition of a law; "any derogation of
         the common law is to be strictly construed"

derogation - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DEROGATION, civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a 
  law is to enact something which is contrary to it; to abrogate a law is' to 
  abolish it entirely. Dig. lib. 50, t. 17, 1. 102. See Abrogation. 
  
  

derogation - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "derogation":
     attrition, belittling, comedown, contempt, curtailment, cut,
     cutting, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination,
     decline, decrease, decrement, decrial, deformation, degeneracy,
     degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depletion,
     depravation, depravedness, depreciation, descent, deterioration,
     detraction, devolution, diminution, dip, disapproval, discrediting,
     disgrace, disparagement, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility,
     downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, extraction, fading,
     failing, failure, failure of nerve, faint praise, fall,
     falling-off, impairment, indignity, involution, knocking, lapse,
     lessening, loss of tone, lukewarm support, minimizing,
     putting down, reduction, regression, remission, retraction,
     retrenchment, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression,
     shortening, shrinkage, slighting, slippage, slump, sour grapes,
     truncation, wane