Both Uses of
degrade
in
Bleak House
- For yourself, unfortunate girl, orphaned and degraded from the first of these evil anniversaries, pray daily that the sins of others be not visited upon your head, according to what is written.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- There is not an atom of Tom's slime, not a cubic inch of any pestilential gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an ignorance, not a wickedness, not a brutality of his committing, but shall work its retribution through every order of society up to the proudest of the proud and to the highest of the high.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity