degradement

From degrade +‎ -ment.

degradement (uncountable) (rare)

1. Degradation.
   • 2023, Rebecca Lawrence, “Rehabilitating Ranger uranium mine: scientific uncertainty, deep futures and the production of ignorance”, in The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters:

     […] places of degradement and potential abandonment, such as uranium mines.

2. Removal or lowering of a person's rank or office.

   Synonym: demotion

   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:

     threw away those episcopal ornaments wherein they were installed, as foolish and detestable; for so the words of Ridley at his degradement

3. Degrading behaviour; insults or disrespect.
   • a. 1998, Labour Arbitration Cases, Central Ontario Industrial Relations Institute, page 283:

     In Re Canada Post Corp. and C.U.P.W (Keith Jaworski), (Norman, unreported, March 19, 1984) a letter suspended the grievor "as a result of your actions of continual harassment and degradement of a fellow employee".

• “degradement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.