Both Uses
detract
in
David Copperfield
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- Peggotty knowing nothing about her, and my mother saying nothing about her, she was quite a mystery in the parlour; and the fact of her having a magazine of jewellers' cotton in her pocket, and sticking the article in her ears in that way, did not detract from the solemnity of her presence.†
Chpt 1-3detract = diminish (reduce the value of something)
- 'Never say I detracted from her!'†
Chpt 19-21 *detracted = diminished (reduced the value of something)
Definitions:
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(1)
(detract) to diminish (reduce the value of something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)