Derogation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  derogation
       n 1: a communication that belittles somebody or something [syn: {disparagement},
             {depreciation}]
       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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.