All 7 Uses of
degrade
in
Emma
- There can be no doubt of your being a gentleman's daughter, and you must support your claim to that station by every thing within your own power, or there will be plenty of people who would take pleasure in degrading you."†
Chpt 1.3-4
- —It would be a degradation.†
Chpt 1.7-8 *
- A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!†
Chpt 1.7-8
- If it would be good to her, I am sure it would be evil to himself; a very shameful and degrading connexion.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- Now, as her objection was nothing but her very great dislike of Mrs. Elton, of which Mr. Weston must already be perfectly aware, it was not worth bringing forward again:—it could not be done without a reproof to him, which would be giving pain to his wife; and she found herself therefore obliged to consent to an arrangement which she would have done a great deal to avoid; an arrangement which would probably expose her even to the degradation of being said to be of Mrs. Elton's party!†
Chpt 3.5-6
- She had led her friend astray, and it would be a reproach to her for ever; but her judgment was as strong as her feelings, and as strong as it had ever been before, in reprobating any such alliance for him, as most unequal and degrading.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity