Both Uses of
degrade
in
An Ideal Husband
- And money that comes from a tainted source is a degradation.†
Act 1 *
- …commercial transaction of a loathsome commercial age; but you seem to have forgotten that you came here to-night to talk of love, you whose lips desecrated the word love, you to whom the thing is a book closely sealed, went this afternoon to the house of one of the most noble and gentle women in the world to degrade her husband in her eyes, to try and kill her love for him, to put poison in her heart, and bitterness in her life, to break her idol, and, it may be, spoil her soul.†
Act 3
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity