detriment

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.””

   “"Would it be fair to say that when it came to making trouble, you'd make up for what you didn't absolutely know . . . and to our detriment?"”

   ““There’s far more evidence for coffee’s benefits than harms,” Dr. Cryer said — which is something worth keeping in mind, he added, while you scroll through social media stories that profess the brew’s detriments.”

2. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
3. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “DEJECTION [with Astrol.] said of the planets, when in their detriment, i.e. when they have lost their force or influence by reason of being in opposition to some other, which check and contract them.”

   “This is infallible : Saturn out of all Dignities in his Detriment and Fall, combust : and Venus in the South-angle elevated above him, Lady of both their Nativities, in her essential and accidental Dignities; occidental from the[…]”

   “Mercury peregrine, and in detriment or fall, retrograde or combust, in quartile or opposition of Luna from angles, Now in motion, cadent, or in via combusta, or afflicted by Saturn or Mars, shows[…]”

   “The dignity or debility of the planet the eclipse falls on must be noted. Eclipses that fall on a planet in detriment or fall seem to have more of an adverse effect. Eclipses that fall on a planet in its rulership or exaltation seem[…]”

4. (countable, uncountable)The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).

   “Argent, a Moon in her detriment or Eclipse Sable[…]”

   “Moon in its Detriment, or Wane”

   “Argent; a Moon in her detriment, Sable. This word is used in heraldry to denote her being eclipsed.”

   “When sable, the moon is said to be in her detriment.”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.