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Definition of Detractions
1. detraction [n] - See also: detraction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detractions
Literary usage of Detractions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont by Augustus Arthur Perceval Egmont, Sophia Crawford Lomas, William Page, Ireland Court of Castle chamber (1905)
"accordingly used, which yet I shall rather hazard than insist upon anything that
might colour the detractions of my enemies; which notwithstanding I desire ..."
2. The London Charterhouse: Its Monks and Its Martyrs, with a Short Account of by Lawrence Hendriks (1889)
"SION HOUSE—SALTER'S Detractions—THE CATHOLIC FAITH MADE HIGH TREASON—THE CARTHUSIANS
PREPARE TO DIE. THE monastery of St. Saviour and St. Bridget of Sion, ..."
3. Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England (1870)
"... scribble as they may, their detractions cannot blast the memory of the men
whom " the sage of Quincy" has thus frankly justified. ..."
4. The Lives of John Wilson, John Norton, and John Davenport by Alexander Wilson M'Clure (1846)
"... scribble as they may, their detractions cannot blast the memory of the men
whom " the sage of Quincy" has thus frankly justified. ..."
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