She might have told the story to any man in the company without derogation from her womanly dignity.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
It was easy for Phineas to proclaim that he found no derogation to his dignity as a man of birth and a university graduate in identifying himself with his fellow privates.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
If any one had suggested such an idea to him he would have thought that a bachelor, who had finished his thirteenth year, could not without derogation to his dignity and age do anything like that.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz