The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the abomination of men.
Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people.
Ovid begins the poem by asking his detractor why he criticizes Ovid's verse.
To a Detractor The anonymous detractor to whom Ovid apparently addresses this poem is probably fictional; at 47 he substitutes Liuor, dropping the pretence of speaking to a single enemy.
It is commonly admitted that the listener in question sins doubly against charity, and grievously if the defamation is seriously harmful; for he sins against the detractor by refusing to give a brotherly correction (see 1258 sqq.
The detractor is excused from the duty of restoring reputation, since the person he defamed has now independently of the first defamation lost his right to reputation (see 2053 sqq.
The detractor is not excused, however, from payment for damages which the defamed person suffered from the first defamation or for expenses which it caused him.
This listener sins against the detractor whom he scandalizes by inducing to sin, against the detracted whom he deprives of his good name.
Thus, he is both uncharitable to the detractor and unjust to the detracted, and is the moving cause of all the harm that is done (cfr.
Thus, God does not hate the detractor himself, nor should children ever hate the person of a parent, or the natural relationship he holds to themselves, no matter how bad the parent may be.
Scripture says that the tongue of the detractor has the sharpness of a razor, and it compares him to an arrow dipped in poison, and to a biting serpent.
We may now briefly notice some of the causes which influence the detractor in his talk.
In the courts of princes, in the halls of science, in the schools of literature, the detractor may be found with his deteriorating and damaging tongue.
A detractor likes not to see a brother stand in the good esteem of others, therefore he aims at the deterioration of his character; his eye is evil and sore, hence he would quench or becloud the light that dazzles it.
As the work of the detractor is the tarnishing, or, it may be, the destruction of a man's good name, the evil nature of it may be seen at one view.
A man may speak never so well, or act never so nobly, yet a detractor will make his words bear some ill sense, and his actions tend to some bad purpose; so that we may suspect his meaning, and not yield him our full approbation.
A detractor is one whose aim is to lessen, or withdraw from, that which constitutes a good name or contributes to it.
And if this be not enough, I am made a detractor from my predecessors, whom I confess to have been my masters in the art.
He who allows,” he says, “that Shakespeare had learning and a familiar acquaintance with the Ancients, ought to be looked upon as a detractor from his extraordinary merit and from the glory of Great Britain.
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.
For, if he was wrong or exaggerated in his particulars, I had offended God much more in other matters that my detractor knew nothing about.
And, thus, I am very glad that my detractor should ever report a trifling lie about me, rather than the terrible truth.
Because flattery seeks to please the person flattered, whereas the detractor seeks not the displeasure of the person defamed, since at times he defames him in secret, but seeks rather his defamation.
I have an only son, just passed seventeen, who is as ardent a supporter of the Union cause as I am a detractor of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detractor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
