detrectation

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin dētrectātiō.

Noun

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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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