detriments

Noun

detriment (countable and uncountable, plural detriments)

1. Harm, hurt, damage.
   • “But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”1872, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter 7, in The Possessed, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2012
2. (UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
3. The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
   • Saturn, Jupiter and Mars from their conjunction to their opposition with the Sun are Oriental, and gain two fortitudes; but from their Opposition to their Conjunction are occidental, and incur two detriments.1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness, page 342
4. The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
   • Argent, a Moon in her detriment or Eclipse Sable[…]1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry … second edition, page 110

   Antonyms:

   in complement, in plenitude

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