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Deterioration   /dɪtˈɪriərˌeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Deterioration  n.  The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.






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"Deterioration" Quotes from Famous Books



... condemnation of unfaithfulness to the home-mission may be inferred from its importance and responsibility. Those who are unfaithful are guilty of "blood." We see the curse of such neglect in that deterioration of character which so rapidly succeeds parental delinquency. They must answer before God for the loss which the soul, the state, and the church sustain thereby. "It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than ...
— The Christian Home • Samuel Philips

... with John Storm and his work, and the other side—and so much the stronger side, alas! in love with the world, and filled with merry, buoyant life. One follows her through every step of her course, and feels the moral deterioration coming upon her so gradually and yet so surely. Splendid, wholesome, Glory, pure-eyed and frank-hearted, going through the wild rout of music-halls and theatrical successes, suggestive songs, Derby days and ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... possible that the time may come when she will advertise by photographs and beg from reporters the 'pars' she now so scathingly criticises? Nay, when I look upon the drop scene at the St. James's Theatre, I ask myself if the deterioration has not ...
— Better Dead • J. M. Barrie

... him into Greece the knowledge of the letters of the alphabet, which he taught to the natives. From these rudiments of learning sprung civilization, which the poets have always been prone to describe as a deterioration of man's first estate, the Golden Age of ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR

... of blood may be subnormal in two senses, quantitative and qualitative. We may have a diminution of the amount of blood—"Oligaemia." Deterioration of the quality of the blood may be quite independent of the amount of blood, and must primarily express itself in a diminution of the physiologically important constituents. Hence we distinguish the following chief types of alteration ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich


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