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Definition of Detracting
1. detract [v] - See also: detract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detracting
Literary usage of Detracting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Political Economy by Simon Newcomb (1885)
"... book would have been entirely omitted, as detracting from time purely scientific
character of time work, were it not timat applications of a ..."
2. The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton by Sir Egerton Brydges (1834)
"... blights —Qualities calculated for success—Ridicule—No one can please all—Johnson's
detracting spirit—Gray—Anecdote of Gray and Johnson—Geniuses need not ..."
3. The Management of the Tongue: Under the Following Very Important and Useful by Laurent Bordelon (1814)
"IT is in vain for a detracting man to flatter Himself with the hopes of such a
... Let the detracting man sincerely judge of it by himself, when he hears ..."