Harm vs Detraction - What's the difference?
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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
* , chapter=13
, title= That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
* (William Shakespeare)
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.
As nouns the difference between harm and detraction
is that harm is injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.As a verb harm
is to cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.harm
English
(wikipedia harm)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
- We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.Derived terms
* do no harm * harmer * harmless * harm's way * self-harm * unharmedAnagrams
* ----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