Definition of Detracting

1. Verb. (present participle of detract) ¹

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Definition of Detracting

1. detract [v] - See also: detract

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detracting

detoxications
detoxification
detoxification reaction
detoxification unit
detoxifications
detoxified
detoxifier
detoxifies
detoxify
detoxifying
detoxing
detract
detractable
detracted
detracteth
detracting (current term)
detractingly
detraction
detractions
detractious
detractive
detractively
detractiveness
detractor
detractors
detractory
detractour
detractress
detractresses
detracts

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 ..."

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