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Definition
reduce social standing or dignity
- Pfuel only snorted contemptuously and turned away, to show that he would never demean himself by replying to such nonsense as he was now hearing.Book Nine — 1812 (48% in)
- Balashev began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon.Book Nine — 1812 (25% in)
- "You won't deign to demean yourself by marrying me, you...." said Helene, beginning to cry.Book Eleven — 1812 (13% in)
There are no more uses of "demean" in War and Peace.
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