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derogate

[der-uh-gayt, der-uh-git, -gayt] / ˈdɛr əˌgeɪt, ˈdɛr ə gɪt, -ˌgeɪt /


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One option to deal with the shortfall would be to allow Kilroot to temporarily derogate from its environmental permits though the legality and cost of that is unclear.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2022

Producers and Lee’s estate signed a contract agreeing that “the play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the novel nor alter its characters,” according to The New York Times.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018

The contract the parties signed states that “the Play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the Novel nor alter its characters.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018

By all which we do not intend any way to derogate from any other rights, which the French clergy may have over the Jesuits or other regulars.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas

Neither doth the Apostle condemn only the superstitious use of these exercises, as Calvin well observeth,315 alioqui in totum damnaret: whereas he doth only extenuate and derogate from them, saying, that they profit little.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

McConnell notes that early executive-legislative skirmishes over information were couched in language about congressional “requests” for information that implicitly acknowledged presidential authority, not subpoenas that derogated it.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021

Social psychologists, including my New York University colleague Madeline Heilman, have shown that successful women in traditionally masculine roles are often derogated and disliked.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020

The pressures of adapting the book also were complicated after a lawyer for Lee’s estate filed a lawsuit alleging that Sorkin’s interpretation derogated the “spirit of the novel.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2018

The commission’s in-depth investigation opened in February 2015 showed that the scheme derogated from normal practice under Belgian company tax rules and the so-called ‘arm’s length principle’.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016

The apostles in the constitution of elders in every church derogated nothing from their own authority, nor discharged themselves of their care.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

“That’s not a frivolous argument. But I’m not sure that’s true. I think if you want to restore the rule of law and equal justice, you don’t do it by further derogating from justice.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

I don’t want to seem like I’m derogating these other films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

Humans respond to feelings of threat by derogating outgroups.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2018

But I think in general terms this is a very derogating thing.

From Time ● Jun. 23, 2013

But against this view, though without derogating from the merits which induce it, is to be set the fact that he made mistakes hardly consistent with the theory of inspiration by Omniscience.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse


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