derogate
/ˈdɛɹəɡeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity."
Etymology
Inherited from Late Middle English derogaten, from derogat(e) (“annulled, abrogated”, used participially and later as the past participle of derogaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix) borrowed from Latin dērogātus, perfect passive participle of dērogō (“to annul, repeal part of a law, take away, detract from”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dē- (“from”) + rogō (“to ask, enquire; to propose a law”). Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃reǵ-, derogaten, dērogātus, derogat
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈdɛɹəɡeɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
derogates (present, singular)
derogating (participle, present)
derogated (participle, past)
derogated (past)
more derogate (comparative)
most derogate (superlative)