Meaning of dedecoration | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Disgrace; dishonour.
   obsolete, uncountable
2. The removal of decoration.
   rare, uncountable
3. Decimation (the elimination of points from a lattice); the inverse of decoration.
   uncountable

Examples

“Alas! he fears my lacerated coat, And visage pale with frigorisic want, Would bring dedecoration on his chaise.”

“In any case it is vulgar, and in its small way, as a dedecoration of Caswall's little treatise, is as sad a case of the confounding of things essentially different as I have seen for a long time.”

“There under the hungry eyes of his mistress, who witnessed all from the Mirador, Pedro, to his dedecoration, put into action the awful declaration, "I am El Rey Justiciero."”

“And it is, as I said, with unmingled satisfaction, that I find that no disposition has been evinced among us, to commit any of these irregular reappropriations; or to adopt any of these devices, novel or obsolete, for the decoration or dedecoration of sacred edifices, and those who minister in them.”

“He was advised that it clearly might; that these mummers had no right to lay their hands on this public ornament, whether for the purpose of decoration or dedecoration”

“Dedecoration did not produce any advantages in observing the size of the displacement of dislocations.”

“Applying the star-triangle and dedecoration transformations[…]”

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