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Definition
the decrease in the value of something — especially due to its wearing out or getting old
- In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable.Chapter 26 (69% in)
- There was an air of toleration or depreciation about his utterance of these words that rather depressed me; and I was still looking sideways at his block of a face in search of any encouraging note to the text, when he said here we were at Barnard's Inn.Chapter 21 (28% in)
There are no more uses of "depreciation" in Great Expectations.
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