All 4 Uses of
degrade
in
Persuasion
- Sir Walter could not have borne the degradation of being known to design letting his house.†
Chpt 2 *
- He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.†
Chpt 4
- If Mrs Clay were a very beautiful woman, I grant you, it might be wrong to have her so much with me; not that anything in the world, I am sure, would induce my father to make a degrading match, but he might be rendered unhappy.†
Chpt 5
- She might not wonder, but she must sigh that her father should feel no degradation in his change, should see nothing to regret in the duties and dignity of the resident landholder, should find so much to be vain of in the littlenesses of a town; and she must sigh, and smile, and wonder too, as Elizabeth threw open the folding-doors and walked with exultation from one drawing-room to the other, boasting of their space; at the possibility of that woman, who had been mistress of Kellynch…†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity