detractor
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Therefore he who allows that Shakespear had Learning and a familiar Acquaintance with the Ancients, ought to be look'd upon as a Detractor from his extraordinary Merit, and from the Glory of Great Britain.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
If the Dictator makes a dead set against Smith, the Detractor is pretty sure to find good in him, and may even run him as a whole-souled patriot!
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
Thus would I have him despicably live, Himself, his Friends, and Credit to survive, Into Contempt from Reputation hurl’d, His own Detractor thro’ a scoffing World.
From The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue by Anonymous
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Americanized
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