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

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

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..

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation..

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

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

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration..

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

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

Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

Remove :: Remove (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year..

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..

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

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..

Degenerationist :: Degenerationist (n.) 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..

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..

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

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..

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

Diminution :: Diminution (n.) 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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