By several contrary customs, […] many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated.
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Derogate
//ˈdɛɹəɡeɪt//
Synonyms for "derogate" (99 found)
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32 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- омаловажавам verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
- отнемам от verb (to take away or detract from)
- подбивам verb (to remove a part; to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.))
Catalan
1 entries- derogar verb (to take away or detract from)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 貶低 /贬低 verb (to partially repeal)
- 贬低 verb (to partially repeal)
- 贬低 verb (to partially repeal)
Czech
1 entries- odejmout verb (to take away or detract from)
Finnish
4 entries- halventaa verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
- kumota osittain verb (to partially repeal)
- murentaa verb (to take away or detract from)
- murentaa verb (to remove a part; to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.))
Italian
4 entries- abrogare parzialmente verb (to partially repeal)
- derogare verb (to partially repeal)
- detrarre verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
- rimuovere verb (to take away or detract from)
Japanese
3 entries- 卑しめる verb (to remove a part; to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.))
- 卑下する verb (to remove a part; to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.))
- 貶す verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
Polish
1 entries- umniejszać verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
Portuguese
1 entries- denegrir verb (to take away or detract from)
Russian
2 entries- принижать verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
- умалять verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
Thai
4 entries- ดูถูก verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
- ดูหมิ่น verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
- ดูแคลน verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
- ด้อยค่า verb (to detract from something; to belittle; disparage)
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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 [...].
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When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively stereotyped groups.
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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.
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