Sentence:  I never thought the human frailty of erring in cases of religion, infamy to a state, no more than to a council: it had therefore been neither civil nor christianly, to <WSD>derogate</WSD> the honour of the state for that cause [...]. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle. (from 16th c.)