By several contrary customs, […] many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated.

I never thought the human frailty of erring in cases of religion, infamy to a state, no more than to a council: it had therefore been neither civil nor christianly, to derogate the honour of the state for that cause ….

When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively stereotyped groups.

Bandura (1990) gave a related example of gas chamber operators in Nazi prison camps, who found it necessary to derogate and dehumanize their victims rather than become overwhelmed by distress.

Anything […] that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name.

In doing so she had derogated from her dignity and committed herself.

God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself.

The six-member Committee on Standards and Conduct unanimously recommended that the Senate censure the Connecticut Democrat for behavior that is "contrary to good morals, derogates from the public trust expected of a Senator, and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?

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