detractory
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dētractōrius, from dētractor.
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]detractory (comparative more detractory, superlative most detractory)
- (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:
- For this is not only derogatory unto the wisdom of God, who hath proposed the World unto out knowledge, and thereby the notion of Himself; but also detractory unto the intellect, and sense of man expressedly disposed for that inquisition.