degradation

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And the man who had dragged her peaceful and loving spirit to this degradation was a minister of God's word, an Elder of her church, the counselor of her beloved Bishop.

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  1. noun The act or process of degrading.
  2. noun The state of being degraded; degeneration.
  3. noun A decline to a lower condition, quality, or level.

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  • It appears that VHF digital signals may be more succeptible to signal scatter and degradation, which is posing a problem for people relying solely on an indoor antenna.
  • The students delved into learning about how future global warming could lead to long-term degradation or disappearance of many coral reefs by conducting a weeklong research project on coral bleaching at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). —  Princeton University Top Stories
  • But foreign zoologists say the epidemic of the small mammals is a symptom rather than the cause of grassland degradation, which is mainly the result of human behaviour such as the exploitation of water resources and over-grazing. —  Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • "I hope," said he, "that there may be no man within the limits of these ten States who will participate in his own disgrace, degradation, and ruin: let them maintain their honor. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
  • The character and tendency of the Bill clearly is to compel me to relinquish office, or virtually abandon principles and provisions [in regard to the Bible in the Schools] which I have advocated as of great and vital importance, and become a party to my own personal humiliation and degradation--thus justly exposing myself to the suspicion and imputation of mean and mercenary conduct. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
 

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  1. = French dégradation = Pr.desgradatio = Spanish degradacion = Portuguese degradação = Italian degradazione = Dutch degradatie = G. Danish Swedish degradation, from Middle Latin degrada tio(n-), a reducing in rank, from degradare: see degrade.
 

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/dɛgrəˈdeɪʃən/
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