The act of degrading or the condition of being degraded; degradation.
From degrade + -ment (the result of), an archaic or literary form that combines French and Latin elements.
This old-fashioned noun for 'degradation' appears in historical texts and formal writing, but modern English overwhelmingly prefers 'degradation'—showing how word variants compete and die out over time.
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