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

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..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement..

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

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..

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..

Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

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..

Privation :: Privation (n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation..

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

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

Drawplate :: Drawplate (n.) A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated..

Mode :: Mode (n.) Variety; gradation; degree.

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type..

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

Theatre :: Theatre (n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater..

Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

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

Disgradation :: Disgradation (n.) Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.

Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

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