degradern.
/dɪˈɡreɪdə/ 1. One who or that which degrades or debases.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun] > one who
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1746 Fool (1748) II. 5 The Degraders were left to laugh at each other in due Order.
1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison lxiii What a degrader even of high spirits is vice.
1804–6 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) xviii. 255 As the degraders of human nature have said.
2. Cambridge University. See degrade v. 8.
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1860 G. Ferguson in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 465 A statute was enacted in 1829, by which degraders are not allowed to present themselves for university scholarships, or any other academical honours, without special permission.
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