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English
Etymology
From Latin dētractōrius, from dētractor.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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.