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Definition of Degradations
1. degradation [n] - See also: degradation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Degradations
Literary usage of Degradations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"12960 " Add the differences [degradations] from black to white, which give
twenty-one tones, 21 " By the aid of this table any one can designate in future ..."
2. Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke (1883)
"Corruptions and degradations of each Religion, foreign to its original type. ...
In fact, we may say, generally, that the corruptions and degradations of ..."
3. Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested ...by John] [Barrow by John] [Barrow (1735)
"... the kinds of pictures in one colour are two, :. catn'uux, where the degradations
of colours of objects afar ..."
4. The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"We are no patrons of corporal chastisement, which, on the contrary, as the vilest
of degradations, we abominate. The soldier, who does not feel himself ..."
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