Derogate vs Traduce - What's the difference?
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(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
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
* , scene 4
(archaic) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , X:
(archaic) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
* 1865 , "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar , vol. XIII, Mar 1865:
In transitive terms the difference between derogate and traduce
is that derogate is to detract from (something); to disparage, belittle while traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.As verbs the difference between derogate and traduce
is that derogate is to partially repeal (a law etc.) while traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.As an adjective derogate
is debased.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?
Usage notes
The verb form is relatively uncommon, but the related adjective derogatory is common.Synonyms
* decryAdjective
(en adjective)traduce
English
Verb
(traduc)- This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
- However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].
- From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved'' ''Macbaeth'' to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of ''Hamlet , and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.
