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Abjection :: Abjection (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.

Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.

Baseness :: Baseness (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc..

Degree :: Degree (n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison..

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.

Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color.

Gradatory :: Gradatory (a.) Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual..

Epiploce :: Epiploce (n.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them..

Admiral :: Admiral (n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets..

Trimorphism :: Trimorphism (n.) The coexistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire..

Scale :: Scale (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being..

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing..

Gradualness :: Gradualness (n.) The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes..

Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch..

Nuance :: Nuance (n.) A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.

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