pejoration / ˌpɛdʒ əˈreɪ ʃən, ˌpi dʒə- /

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pejoration 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. depreciation; a lessening in worth, quality, etc.
  2. Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a lower, less approved, or less respectable meaning.Compare melioration.

更多pejoration例句

  1. I hope that these baths may arrest the disagreeable tendency to pejoration from which I have suffered in the past year.