Verb
To take away; to withdraw.
To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
Source: Webster's dictionarySo, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power. Thomas Aquinas
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there. Karen Finerman
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror. George W. Bush
The John Birch Society is a good, patriotic society. I don't agree with what its founder said about me, but that does not detract from the fact that its membership is comprised of many fine Americans dedicated to the preservation of our libertarian Republic. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adventure has no place in the anthropologists profession; it is merely one of those unavoidable drawbacks, which detract from his effective work through the incidental loss of weeks or months. Claude Lévi-Strauss
I don't want my image to appear in the mass media, since it would detract from the project. Gustav Metzger