Contumely vs Detraction - What's the difference?
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Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
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* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 19 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1914 , (Grace Livingston Hill), The Best Man :
* 1953 , (James Strachey), translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Avon Books, p. 178:
* 1976 , (Robert Nye), Falstaff :
The act of detracting something, or something detracted.
A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
* (Isaac Barrow)
(Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
Contumely is a related term of detraction.
As nouns the difference between contumely and detraction
is that contumely is offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.contumely
English
Noun
- For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...].
- She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
- What scorn, what contumely , would be his!
- If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.
- I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely , you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.
detraction
English
Noun
(wikipedia detraction)- If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world