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DEFILEMENT |
Degradation |
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DEBASEMENT |
Degradation |
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ABASEMENT |
Degradation |
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ADULTERY |
Injury; degradation; ruin. |
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DEGRADEMENT |
Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. |
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DISGRADATION |
Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors. |
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SELF-ABASEMENT |
Degradation of one's self by one's own act. |
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BASENESS |
The quality or condition of being base; degradation;
vileness. |
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ABJECTION |
A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement;
degradation. |
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DESCENSION |
The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking;
declension; degradation. |
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WRETCH |
One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable
person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch. |
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PRIVATION |
The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the
depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. |
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DEGENERATION |
The act or state of growing worse, or the state of
having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy;
deterioration. |
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DIMINUTION |
The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the
state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation;
degradation; abasement. |
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FALL |
Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office;
termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the
fall of the Roman empire. |
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DEGENERATIONIST |
A believer in the theory of degeneration, or
hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that
savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state. |
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DEGRADATION |
...tion,
or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or
society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a
gene... |