Both Uses of
undermine
in
Don Quixote
- In fact with the utmost assiduity he undermined the rock of her purity with such engines that had Camilla been of brass she must have fallen.†
Chpt 1.33-34 *
- I am not the one to undermine the propriety of Senor Don Quixote, for it strikes me that among his many virtues the one that is pre-eminent is that of modesty.†
Chpt 2.43-44
Definition:
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(undermine) weaken gradually