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▪ I. degrading, vbl. n.|dɪˈgreɪdɪŋ|
[f. degrade v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb degrade.
1646Evance Noble Ord. 2 Elyes degrading, or Gods revoking of his promise. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxvii. (1879) 341 It was a carnal degrading of the Supreme One.
▪ II. deˈgrading, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
1. That degrades or debases.
1684Earl Roscom. Ess. Transl. Verse (1709) 43 Degrading Prose explains his meaning ill. 1773Mrs. Chapone Improv. Mind (1774) II. 15 A..generous kind of anger..has nothing in it sinful or degrading. 1814Scott Wav. ix, Engaged in this laborious and..degrading office. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 448 A superstition as stupid and degrading as the Egyptian worship of cats and onions. Mod. Boarding School Prospectus. There are no degrading punishments.
2. Geol. Wearing down a surface.
1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. x. (ed. 2) 228 The degrading process is the same as that to which sandstones..are exposed during severe frosts. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. ii. 45 The absence of degrading forces at the sea bottom.
Hence deˈgradingly adv.; deˈgradingness.
1707Norris Treat. Humility vi. 289 He that disparages, or speaks degradingly of himself, may possibly be much the prouder man of the two. 1803Ann. Reg. 253 Two men..were insulted, imprisoned, degradingly used. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iv, We are degradingly poor. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng. 274 Degradingness: of..its inherency in the very essence of a Sinecure, mention has been already made. |