DEROGATE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Derogate

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Derogate v. t. (past & past part. derogated; pres. part. derogating)

To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; said of a law. "By several contrary customs,... many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated."

To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; said of a person or thing. (R.) "Anything... that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name."

Derogate v. i.

To take away; to detract; to withdraw; usually with from. "If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great." "It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity."

To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. (R.) "You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate." "Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?"

noun

Derogate n. Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded. (R.)

See images of 'Derogate'

Etymology of 'Derogate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Derogate" Quotes from Famous Books

... fellow-craftsmen had been heard to remark that if Caspar had made the tombstone, the lady under it would have tried harder than ever to get to heaven. To Stanwell's present mood, however, there was something more than usually irritating in the gratuitous assumption that Arran had only to derogate from his altitude to have a press of ...

— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton

... ostensibly to Providence, but, in Madame Chermidy's private intentions, to the care of quite another Power. The Dowager Countess de Villanera—rather improbably, but not quite impossibly—accepts this, being, though proud, willing to derogate a little to make sure of an heir to the House of Villanera with at any rate a portion (the sceptical would say a rather doubtful ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... his carriers to start, to back down and postpone their departure, just to suit the convenience of his neighbours, would derogate from his own importance. His men might think he was ...

— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown

... slouched over his brows, he traversed the short interval of space betwixt his own apartments and those of the Lady Penelope. In a buck of the old school, one of Congreve's men of wit and pleasure about town, this would have been a departure from character; but the present fine man does not derogate from his quality, even by exhibiting all the moody and gentlemanlike solemnity of Master Stephen.[II-C] So, Lord Etherington was at liberty to carry on his reflections, without attracting observation.—"I ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... am severer than you," interrupted Dorothea. "Who, indeed, could guess that an old graybeard would derogate from the duties of his office as father and as judge for the sake of a woman's smiling face in clay—as Esau sold his birthright ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

More quotes...