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To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.

One who detracts; a detractor. Other detracters and malicious writers. Sir T. North.

In a detracting manner.

A taking away or withdrawing. [Obs.] The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon.

Containing detraction; detractory. [R.] Johnson.

Tending to detractor draw. [R.]

The quality of being detractive.

One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

A female detractor. Addison.

Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

ciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

on, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.] To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. Shak.

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. Sir T. More.

The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.