All 6 Uses of
degrade
in
Frankenstein
- I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.
Chpt 4 *degraded = reduced in dignity (made less worthy of admiration)
- To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.
Chpt 13degradation = reduction of human dignity
- Sometimes he thought that I felt deeply the degradation of being obliged to answer a charge of murder, and he endeavoured to prove to me the futility of pride.
Chpt 22degradation = reduction in dignity
- Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch as I felt pride.
Chpt 22degraded = reduced in dignity (made less worthy of admiration)
- My friend, if you had known me as I once was, you would not recognize me in this state of degradation.
Chpt 24degradation = reduced dignity
- But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal.
Chpt 24degraded = reduced in dignity (made less worthy of admiration)
Definition:
-
(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity