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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