Word Meanings - DEROGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. (more info) 1. The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it

Additional info about word: DEROGATION

An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. (more info) 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. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEROGATION)

• Detraction
• Diminution
• deterioration
• depreciation
• slander
• backbiting
• derogation

Related words: (words related to DEROGATION)

• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• SLANDER
  Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
• DEROGATION
  An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. (more info) 1. The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it
• BACKBITER
  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
• BACKBITING
  Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.
• SLANDERER
  One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
• DEPRECIATION
  1. The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation. 2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke. 3. the state of being depreciated.
• DIMINUTION
  Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record. (more info) 1. The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase. 2. The act of lessening
• BACKBITE
  To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully ; to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
• DETERIORATION
  The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
• DETRACTION
  1. A taking away or withdrawing. The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon. 2. The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another,
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• DISSLANDER
  To slander. Legend of Dido.
• DISSLANDEROUS
  Slanderous.