Demean vs Derogate - What's the difference?
demean | derogate |
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
* Thackeray
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
To mortify.
To manage; to conduct; to treat.
* Milton
To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
(archaic) Management; treatment.
* Spenser
(archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
*:‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
* West
(obsolete) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
* Sir M. Hale
To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
* 1642 , (John Milton), An Apology for Smectymnuus :
* 1999 , Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition , p. 222:
* 2001 , Russell Cropanzano, Justice in the Workplace , vol. II, p. 104:
(ambitransitive) To take away (something (from) something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
* Sir T. More
* Burke
To remove a part, to detract (from) (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 147 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
* 1967 , "The undoing of Dodd", Time , 5 Dec 1967:
To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
* c. 1611 , (William Shakespeare), Cymbeline , II.1:
* Hazlitt
(archaic) debased
:* 1605', Dry up in her the organs of increase, / And from her '''derogate body never spring / A babe to honour her. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear I.iv
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between demean and derogate
is that demean is (archaic) behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor while derogate is (archaic) debased.As verbs the difference between demean and derogate
is that demean is to debase; to lower; to degrade or demean can be to manage; to conduct; to treat while derogate is (obsolete|transitive) to partially repeal (a law etc).As a noun demean
is (archaic) management; treatment or demean can be demesne.As an adjective derogate is
(archaic) debased.demean
English
Etymology 1
(1595) From . Compare English (m).Verb
(en verb)- Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
Synonyms
* debase * lower * degradeEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
- They have demeaned themselves / Like men born to renown by life or death.
- They answered that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.
Noun
- vile demean and usage bad
- with grave demean and solemn vanity
Etymology 3
Var. of demesne.Anagrams
* * *derogate
English
Verb
- By several contrary customs, many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated .
- I never thought the human frailty of erring in cases of religion, infamy to a state, no more than to a council: it had therefore been neither civil nor christianly, to derogate the honour of the state for that cause [...].
- When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively setereotyped groups.
- Bandura (1990) gave a related example of gas chamber operators in Nazi prison camps, who found it necessary to derogate and dehumanize their victims rather than become overwhelmed by distress.
- Anything that should derogate , minish, or hurt his glory and his name.
- It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity.
- In doing so she had derogated from her dignity and committed herself.
- God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself.
- The six-member Committee on Standards and Conduct unanimously recommended that the Senate censure the Connecticut Democrat for behavior that is "contrary to good morals, derogates from the public trust expected of a Senator, and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
- CLOTEN. Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't?
- SECOND LORD. You cannot derogate , my lord.
- Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?