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▪ I. detracting, vbl. n.|dɪˈtræktɪŋ|
[f. detract v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb detract, q.v.; † protraction (obs.); † shunning, avoiding (obs.); disparagement, detraction.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 83 b, Fabius..so tempered Prudence with..prowesse, that by detracting of battayle, and trayning Anniball from place to place, and..skirmishing with hym, he minished hys puissaunce. 1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. i. i. (1591) 1 Detracting and envyous carping. 1581Styward Mart. Discipl. ii. 164 The detracting of time shall enforce vs to take counsaile when it is to late. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 135 The detracting of the time of our setting out. 1613Jackson Creed i. 331 The Iewes detractings of our Sauiour.
▪ II. detracting, ppl. a.|dɪˈtræktɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That detracts; given to detraction; disparaging, depreciative.
1530Palsgr. 310/1 Detractyng, belongyng to detractyon, detractoire. 1599Marston Sc. Villanie ii. vi. 201 Hence ye big-buzzing, little-bodied Gnats..With your malignant, weake, detracting vaine. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland v. 14 They are..of a censorious and detracting humor. 1718Prideaux Connection ii. ii. 78 He had criticised in a very biting and detracting style. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 398 A man who is of a detracting spirit, will misconstrue the most innocent words.
Hence deˈtractingly adv.
1598Florio, Prauamente, wickedly..detractingly. 1761Murphy All in Wrong v. i, I am not fond of speaking detractingly of a young lady. 1818Coleridge Treat. Method in Encycl. Metrop., Mental Philos. (1847) 16 Why Bacon should have spoken detractingly of such a man. |