How To Use Detraction In A Sentence
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Only there is this difference, that as all are more forcibly inclined to ill than good, they are much apter to exceed in detraction than in praises.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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These flubs, combined with the fact that the director chose to have the actors constantly walking up and down the aisles of the theatre, ultimately only served as a major detraction from the performance.
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In after times the American people will cherish his memory as a precious legacy, nor will they suffer any detraction from the merit of his character or his services.
A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
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The proposals include no detraction from the archaeology as this has been, and will be carefully researched, preserved, and protected.
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Add to these detractions from her loveliness, viz: thinness and pallor, that her expression betokened earnest thought rather than gayety or sweetness, and the reader need not be surprised that people did not usually consider Hope a beauty, though we were captivated by her looks, even before we formed her acquaintance.
Then and Now;--Or,--Hope's First School
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Is then the confession of the grace wrought by Him to usward a detraction from His glory?
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken
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We should avoid, however, acts of apparent contrition that are, in fact, acts of detraction against our forebears in the faith.
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Let us banish from the social circle that spirit of detraction and backbiting, which is always the bane of society.
The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,
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The other detraction from the pleasures of the evening, consisted in the dark uninhabited remoteness of the large chamber, from which we witnessed the exhibition; a flight of dark stairs led up to it; a few pieces of ambiguous lumber were its only furniture, and even by daylight, I did not pass the foot of that flight without a response from my nerves.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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Also patron of bridges, detraction, discretion, and silence; he is invoked against slander.
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Hmm, Hillary's experience and popularity a "detraction" from Sen. Obama's election run?
Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake'
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If you have exposed some crime that he really committed, your sin is called detraction; if you accuse him of one he did not commit, your sin is calumny; and if you maliciously circulate these reports to injure his character, your sin is slander.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
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These small detractions don't stop Raimi's film from being a superlative movie, a rare sequel that betters its predecessor, a rare blockbuster that has an emotional heart.
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When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.
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Although the executive committee said that all these entries had good points, they felt that each had enough detractions to deny them the award.
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When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.
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Really the only minor detraction was the bizarre insistence at the gates that any bottled drinks had to have the caps taken off, and thrown away.
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I sound like a broken record, but this kind of detraction from our one goal in November is so typical of some so called "Democrats", it will be hard enough to deal with the Republicans and now this.
Election Central Saturday Roundup
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Carthage were three bishops together at dinner, and one of them spake evil by detraction of S. Ambrose, and there was a man that told what was befallen for such language to this aforesaid priest, but he mocked and japed so much that he felt a stroke mortal; that that same day he died and was buried.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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Having him as more of a central character in the film took away the edge, he became more on an ‘everyman’, a detraction from the character they’re trying to build … the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Let me quickly address, Iron Man 2 is awesome and serves the franchise well, but I also left the theatre with the feeling that the entire thing was a big set-up of the forth-coming Avengers film.
REVIEW: The Super Ensemble of IRON MAN 2 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
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It would surprise a great many to learn who this person was, but as no detraction is intended, I will dismiss the subject at once.
At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative
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There are even cases where the judge can set aside the order of payment to the detraction of the first payees.
Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Reynolds Urges Federal Default
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The amazing part of the detraction is that a lot of these are the same arguments why weblogs were unnecessary and irrelevant.
Gillmor on Fire
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Now, contumely, as you will remark, does not seek primarily to deprive one of a good name; which it nearly always succeeds in doing, and this is called detraction; but its object is to prevent your good name from getting its desert of respect, your character supposedly remaining intact.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
