Which preposition to use with degrades

to Occurrences 38%

The tendency is to raise every thing that is elsewhere degraded to a respectable height, when there commences an attraction of gravitation that draws all towards the centre; a little closer too than could be wished perhaps.

from Occurrences 29%

Yes: he was one of the COOKS or one of the BUTLERS, we have forgotten which; but it is certain that he was degraded from the peerage for offering some of his sauce to the reigning British monarch of his time.

in Occurrences 29%

There is nothing degrading in it.

into Occurrences 24%

But there never has been even a living true symbol which the dulness of those who will see the truth only in the symbol has not degraded into the very cockatrice-egg of sectarianism.

by Occurrences 12%

This narrative exhibits a pattern of honesty, prudence, and industry, to people of his own colour; and perhaps some white people would not find themselves degraded by imitating such an example.

as Occurrences 9%

How was it to be expected that anything else could happen among a people so degraded as the Neapolitans, one hundred years behind the people of North Italy in civilization, in intelligence, in wealth, and in morals,in everything that qualifies a people for liberty or self-government?

below Occurrences 4%

Here, then, were human beings, children of our common Father, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, classed with the brutes that perish,nay, degraded below them, and placed under the surveillance of dogs.

before Occurrences 4%

If the Germans were indifferent to this one elementary rule of the white race in equatorial Africathe white man's law that no white man be degraded before a nativethen the Belgian would show the Hun how to play the game.

at Occurrences 3%

Degraded at court, deprived of the great offices of the state, despised, rejected, and persecuted, it languished and declined.

on Occurrences 2%

The sense is quite plain if we remember that soldiers degraded on account of misconduct were made "pioners": vid.

without Occurrences 1%

There was an existence of power, to which no good king would aspire; and there was an extreme condition of subjection, to which man could not be degraded without injustice; and this they would maintain, was the condition of the African, who was torn away into slavery.

during Occurrences 1%

Perhaps more than a mile in average depth has the range been thus degraded during the last glacial period,a quantity of mechanical work almost inconceivably great.

of Occurrences 1%

Sore wept the centaur, and to Phoebus prayed; But how could Phoebus give the centaur aid? Degraded of his power by angry Jove, In Elis then a herd of beeves he drove; And wielded in his hand a staff of oak, And o'er his shoulders threw the shepherd's cloak; On seven compacted reeds he used to play, And on his rural pipe to waste the day.

for Occurrences 1%

"I am degraded for ever.

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