All 5 Uses of
degrade
in
Leaves of Grass
- Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.†
Chpt 3 *
- Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.†
Chpt 3
- If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop, If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend, If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome, If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake, If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?†
Chpt 15
- …unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest, I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like; All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon, See, hear, and am silent.†
Chpt 20
- You degradations, you tussle with passions and appetites, You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest of all!†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity