derogate

• Rights do not spring from "political commitments" and the word "derogate" was used precisely because of the legally binding nature of the fuel supply assurances. —  Reality, one bite at a time
• There's such more, including a daylong itemize of bespoken applications that module derogate or modify aid the personalty of movement. —  Planet Malaysia
• His great compeer, Henry the Seventh, did not hasten to adopt the same project submitted to him by Bartholomew Columbus, sent into England[8] for that purpose by his brother Christopher; and it has not been thought to derogate from the English king's sagacity Footnote 8: It is difficult to determine how the project brought before Henry the Seventh's notice by Bartholomew Columbus was received. —  The Life of Columbus
• But by this acknowledgment I must not be supposed to derogate, the reality of Matter, or external objects; seeing it is no more than several philosophers maintain, who nevertheless are the farthest imaginable from denying Matter. —  Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
• She may thus derogate, for the exceedingly Elizabethan reason that she is "brown." —  The Spirit of Place and Other Essays

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