Definition of Degredation
Deg`ra*da"tion (?), n. [LL.
degradatio, from degradare: cf. F.
dégradation. See Degrade.] 1.
The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of
abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society;
diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a
general, or a bishop.
He saw many removes and degradations in all the
other offices of which he had been possessed.
Clarendon.
2. The state of being reduced in rank,
character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual
degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
The . . . degradation of a needy man of
letters. Macaulay.
Deplorable is the degradation of our
nature. South.
Moments there frequently must be, when a sinner is
sensible of the degradation of his state.
Blair.
3. Diminution or reduction of strength,
efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
The development and degradation of the
alphabetic forms can be traced. I. Taylor (The
Alphabet).
4. (Geol.) A gradual wearing down or
wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost
etc.
5. (Biol.) The state or condition of a
species or group which exhibits degraded forms;
degeneration.
The degradation of the species man is observed
in some of its varieties. Dana.
6. (Physiol.) Arrest of development,
or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
Degradation of energy, or Dissipation of
energy (Physics), the transformation of energy
into some form in which it is less available for doing work.
Syn. -- Abasement; debasement; reduction; decline.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from
private station to political preferment.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
- The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
- Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
- A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
- The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
- Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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