derogation

/der-uh-gey-shuhn/US // ˌdɛr əˈgeɪ ʃən //

减损,克减,克损,减免

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n.名词 noun

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- : the act or process of weakening, lessening, or taking away power or authority:Nixon’s impeachment was based in part on his bombing campaign in Cambodia and the resulting derogation of the power of the Congress to declare war.
- : a limit, retraction, or removal, especially of a law or right:In some circumstances, derogations of the right of access to a lawyer may be necessary.
- : the act of belittling or disparaging a person or thing:The derogation of the author’s credentials is sadly typical of today’s anti-intellectual atmosphere.

nounbelittlement

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But the bad management of the French farmers is no derogation from the just praise of its rich soil.
They did not possess it; they were born into some tendency to derogation, into an inclination for things mentally inexpensive.
Never before was a time when derogation was always so near, a daily danger, or when the reward of resisting it was so great.
Perhaps I may, without derogation from the dignity of my subject, speak of the endowment as partly personal and partly entailed.
To do little things instead of big may be a derogation; a great deal will depend upon the way the little things are done.