"detracting" meaning in English

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      "form": "most detracting",
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          "word": "detractingly"
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          "ref": "1837, Benjamin Franklin Foster, Education Reform, page 81:",
          "text": "Neither is there any thing in the condition of the laborer, more taxing to human exertion, more detracting from honorable self-respect, than any other occupation; on the contrary, agriculture, if we reason from realities, and not prejudices, is the truly noble occupation of life.",
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        {
          "ref": "1889, Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-year, volume 2, page 19:",
          "text": "\"In vino veritas,\" properly translated, means—that when a man is fairly under the influence of liquor, you see a strong manifestation of his real character. The vain man is vainer, the voluble, more voluble, the morose, more morose; the passionate, more passionate, the detractor, more detracting; the sycophant, more sycophantic, and so forth.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Dattajirao K. Salunkhe, Narayana R. Bhat, Babasaheb B. Desai, Postharvest Biotechnology of Flowers and Ornamental Plants, page 150:",
          "text": "Probably nothing is more detracting and dissatisfying than buying a potted flowering plant which quits flowering as soon as it is taken home.",
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      "glosses": [
        "That detracts."
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  "word": "detracting"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1844, Charles Marshall, The Journal: Together with Sundry Epistles and Other Writings:",
          "text": "Emulations, heart-risings, evil jealousies, bitter speakings, detractings, and abundance of evil fruit, arise from this root of bitterness […]",
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  "word": "detracting"
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      "word": "detractingly"
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      "form": "more detracting",
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      "form": "most detracting",
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          "ref": "1837, Benjamin Franklin Foster, Education Reform, page 81:",
          "text": "Neither is there any thing in the condition of the laborer, more taxing to human exertion, more detracting from honorable self-respect, than any other occupation; on the contrary, agriculture, if we reason from realities, and not prejudices, is the truly noble occupation of life.",
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          "text": "\"In vino veritas,\" properly translated, means—that when a man is fairly under the influence of liquor, you see a strong manifestation of his real character. The vain man is vainer, the voluble, more voluble, the morose, more morose; the passionate, more passionate, the detractor, more detracting; the sycophant, more sycophantic, and so forth.",
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          "ref": "2012, Dattajirao K. Salunkhe, Narayana R. Bhat, Babasaheb B. Desai, Postharvest Biotechnology of Flowers and Ornamental Plants, page 150:",
          "text": "Probably nothing is more detracting and dissatisfying than buying a potted flowering plant which quits flowering as soon as it is taken home.",
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        "That detracts."
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        "present participle and gerund of detract"
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