detrectation

English

Etymology

From Latin dētrectātiō.

Noun

detrectation (plural detrectations)

1. (obsolete) Drawing back; refusal; withdrawal.
   • 1660, Joseph Hall, The Shaking of the Olive-tree: The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, page 308:

     The Church is the mother of us all, the less important those things are which (in the power of a parent) she injoynes, the more hateful is the detrectation of our observance; you remember the question of […]

   • 1789, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: Printed in the Year 1780, and Now First Published:

     This, if it be the offence of him who should have been guardian, coincides with wrongful detrectation of guardianship: if it be the offence of a third person, it involves in it interception of guardianship, which, provided the […]

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