A person being degraded or stripped of rank or status.
From Latin degradandus (one to be degraded), from degrade + -and (one who is/to be), a rare legal or ceremonial term.
This Latin-style noun appears in formal records of military or religious ceremonies where someone was officially stripped of rank—it's the grammatical object of degradation.
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