Definition of gradation

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

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Disgradation :: Disgradation (n.) Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.
Baseness :: Baseness (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch..
Gradualness :: Gradualness (n.) The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.
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..
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, 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 general, or a bishop..
Stump :: Stump (n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder..
Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..
Gradatory :: Gradatory (a.) Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual..
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..
Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
Self-degradation :: Self-degradation (n.) The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded..
Privation :: Privation (n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation..
Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
Gradation :: Gradation (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration..
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 diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
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