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UK
/dˌɛɹəɡˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- a communication that belittles somebody or something
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(law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law
any derogation of the common law is to be strictly construed
How To Use derogation In A Sentence
- What a derogation to have to travel 'business class'! The Times Literary Supplement
- The State Department often asserts, falsely, that the signing of a treaty “ad referendum” obliges the U.S. to do nothing in derogation of the treaty terms during its pendency before the Senate. Optimism Watch: Instapundit/Israel/Obama edition. | RedState
- Women who have a sense of personal inadequacy may project their views about themselves to a lack of trust and derogation of women in general.
- And they didn't ask for or get, adequate derogations.
- Both hussy and housewife have their origin in Old English huswif, but hussy has undergone semantic derogation.
- It suggests that you can have outgroup derogation without ingroup love prejudice.
- Intensive negotiations over the past year have failed to obtain any derogations which would allow the continuation of the 35 to 40 boat sea angling events in County Sligo, Mayo and Galway.
- The courts, as protectors of such abiding freedoms, must be ever vigilant against derogations from them.
- But the archbishop would none of that, alleging how it should be a derogation to the sée apostolike and his metropoliticall dignitie, to stand before the king in iudgement, or anie other temporall magistrate. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
- His way of reasoning is always his own, sometimes sublime and heavenly, so as not to be reduced unto the common rules of our arts and sciences, without a derogation from its instructive, convictive, and persuasive efficacy. Pneumatologia