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Derogate vs Corrupt - What's the difference?

derogate | corrupt |

In lang=en terms the difference between derogate and corrupt

is that derogate is to act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself while corrupt is to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

As verbs the difference between derogate and corrupt

is that derogate is (obsolete|transitive) to partially repeal (a law etc) while corrupt is to make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

As adjectives the difference between derogate and corrupt

is that derogate is (archaic) debased while corrupt is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

derogate

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • By several contrary customs, many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated .
  • To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
  • * 1642 , (John Milton), An Apology for Smectymnuus :
    • 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 [...].
  • * 1999 , Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition , p. 222:
    • When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively setereotyped groups.
  • * 2001 , Russell Cropanzano, Justice in the Workplace , vol. II, p. 104:
    • 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.
  • (ambitransitive) To take away (something (from) something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
  • * Sir T. More
    • Anything that should derogate , minish, or hurt his glory and his name.
  • * Burke
    • It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity.
  • To remove a part, to detract (from) (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 147 (ISBN 1857150570)
    • In doing so she had derogated from her dignity and committed herself.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
    • 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.
  • * 1967 , "The undoing of Dodd", Time , 5 Dec 1967:
    • 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."
  • To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
  • * c. 1611 , (William Shakespeare), Cymbeline , II.1:
    • CLOTEN. Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't?
    SECOND LORD. You cannot derogate , my lord.
  • * Hazlitt
    • Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?

    Usage notes

    The verb form is relatively uncommon, but the related adjective derogatory is common.

    Synonyms

    * decry

    Related terms

    * abrogate * interrogate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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

    • Related terms

    * derogatory * derogation * derogative ----

    corrupt

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
    • The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.
  • * Shakespeare
    • At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.
  • Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
    • The text of the manuscript is corrupt .
    It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
  • In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • * Knolles
    • Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.

    Quotations

    * , Genesis 6:11 *: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    Synonyms

    * corrupted

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
    • Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
  • * , Genesis 6:12
    • And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
    • to corrupt language, or a holy text
  • To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 19
    • Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .

    Related terms

    * corruptible * corruption * incorruptible

    References

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