Word origin · etymology
Latin through French.
Detrimentum meant loss or damage, from a verb meaning wear away. The traditional classification adopts that diminished-standing vocabulary.
How we know · epistemology
Opposition within a rulership scheme
Opposition to an assigned domicile determines this label, not a physical injury to the planet. Its interpretation describes conventional testimony rather than proving harm, incompetence or a failed outcome.
William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), p. 105, original text ↗
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