All 5 Uses of
degrade
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Here was an opportunity for Mr. Tulliver to provide for his wife and daughter without any assistance from his wife's relations, and without that too evident descent into pauperism which makes it annoying to respectable people to meet the degraded member of the family by the wayside.†
Chpt 3.8
- In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unsatisfied vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings; Mr. Tulliver did not want spiritual consolation—he wanted to shake off the degradation of debt, and to have his revenge.†
Chpt 4.3
- It's altogether a degrading thing to you, to think of marrying old Tulliver's daughter."†
Chpt 6.8 *
- Maggie had returned without a trousseau, without a husband,—in that degraded and outcast condition to which error is well known to lead; and the world's wife, with that fine instinct which is given her for the preservation of Society, saw at once that Miss Tulliver's conduct had been of the most aggravated kind.†
Chpt 7.2
- But close upon that decisive act, her mind recoiled; and the sense of contradiction with her past self in her moments of strength and clearness came upon her like a pang of conscious degradation.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity