Both Uses
undermine
in
Don Quixote
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- In fact with the utmost assiduity he undermined the rock of her purity with such engines that had Camilla been of brass she must have fallen.†
Chpt 1.33-34 *undermined = weakened gradually
- I am not the one to undermine the propriety of Señor Don Quixote, for it strikes me that among his many virtues the one that is pre-eminent is that of modesty.†
Chpt 2.43-44undermine = weaken gradually
Definitions:
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(1)
(undermine) weaken gradually
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)