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detraction|dɪˈtrækʃən|
[a. F. détraction, in 12th c. detractiun (Ph. de Thaun), ad. L. dētractiōn-em, n. of action from dētrahĕre: see detract v.]
The action of detracting.
†1. A taking away, subtraction, deduction, withdrawal. Obs. or arch. exc. as in b. (Cf. detract v. 1, 2.)
1528Gardiner in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. li. 130 Wherein..we saw the additions, detractions, and corrections. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terapeutyke 2 G iv, The detraction of blode..ought to be doone in the partye..moste dystaunt, & then in the vlcerate parties. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love xx. (1700) 127 With less detraction from their true Magnitude. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 243, I approve..rather of Incision, than of Detraction of the Callus. 1817Scoresby in Ann. Reg. Chron. 555 A detraction of vapour from the circumpolar regions.
b. A detracting, or part to be detracted from (merit, reputation, or the like); cf. sense 2.
1633Milton Arcades 11 Fame..We may justly now accuse Of detraction from her praise: Less than half we find expressed. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 263 There is one heavy detraction..from the excellence of the Avignonese climate. 1848Dickens Dombey v, Let it be no detraction from the merits of Miss Tox.
2. The action of detracting from a person's merit or reputation; the utterance of what is depreciatory or injurious to his reputation; depreciation, disparagement, defamation, calumny, slander. (The earliest and the prevalent sense: cf. detract v. 3.)
1340Ayenb. 10 Þo þet misziggeþ guode men behinde ham..þet me clepeþ þe zenne of detraccion. c1400Rom. Rose 5531 With tonge woundyng..Thurgh venemous detraccioun. c1440Gesta Rom. xxxvi. 145 Lesynges, & bacbitinges, and detracciouns. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) G. j, Be no tale bearer, vse not detraction. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie 165 Enuies abhorred childe, Detraction. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 53 By occasion of petty envies, and shamefull detractions. 1709Addison Tatler No. 102 ⁋5 Females addicted to Censoriousness and Detraction. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 527 Flattery and detraction or evil speaking are, as the phrase is, the Scylla and Charybdis of the tongue. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost v. 139 To listen to detraction is as much an act of detraction as to speak it.
†3. Protraction (of time); delay. Obs. (Cf. detract v. 6.)
1579Fenton Guicciard. iii. (1599) 141 Mens..mindes [began] to grow cold for the detraction and negligence which the king used. 1588Howard Let. to Walsyngham 14 June, The Commissioners cannot perceive whether they..use the same to detract a time for a further device; and if our Commissioners do discover any detraction in them [etc.]. 1637R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose i. 138 Lest through detraction of time, those sugred baits..ingage too far.
†4. Withdrawal, declinature, relinquishment. Obs. rare. (Cf. detract v. 7.)
1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 620/2 For want of this renouncing or detraction. |