Derogation vs Defame - What's the difference?

As a noun derogation

is dispensation.

to harm or diminish the reputation of.

(en noun)

An act which belittles; disparagement.

(legal) The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law.

(defam)

To harm or diminish the reputation of.

to defame somebody

To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.

* Dryden

My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.

To publish a libel about.

(archaic) To charge; to accuse.

* Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.

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