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degrader|dɪˈgreɪdə(r)|
[f. degrade v. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which degrades or debases.
1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) No. 51 ⁋3 The Degraders were left to laugh at each other in due Order. 1754Richardson Grandison lxiii, What a degrader even of high spirits is vice. 1804–6Syd. Smith Sk. Mor. Phil. xviii. (1850) 255 As the degraders of human nature have said.
2. Cambridge Univ. See degrade v. 8.
1860G. Ferguson in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 8) XXI. 465 A statute was enacted in 1829, by which degraders are not allowed to present themselves for university scholarships, or any other academical honours, without special permission. |