derogate

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One option to deal with the shortfall would be to allow Kilroot to temporarily derogate from its environmental permits though the legality and cost of that is unclear.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2022

Producers and Lee’s estate signed a contract agreeing that “the play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the novel nor alter its characters,” according to The New York Times.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2018

The contract the parties signed states that “the Play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the Novel nor alter its characters.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2018

Neither doth the Apostle condemn only the superstitious use of these exercises, as Calvin well observeth,315 alioqui in totum damnaret: whereas he doth only extenuate and derogate from them, saying, that they profit little.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

To weigh justly these elements of their renown, is not invidiously to derogate from it, but only to vindicate the truth of history.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various