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to a degree

Word definitions for to a degree in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Degree \De*gree"\, n. [F. degr['e], OF. degret, fr. LL. degradare. See Degrade .] A step, stair, or staircase. [Obs.] By ladders, or else by degree. --Rom. of R. One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
prep.phr. To an extreme; exceedingly.

Usage examples of to a degree.

And here I had not only encountered more than my share, but I had risen to a degree of rulership myself.

But it often is so to a degree that cannot be too severely condemned.

We then went to view the English chapel, and found a small church, clean to a degree unknown in any other part of Scotland, with commodious galleries, and what was yet less expected, with an organ.

For some, it was plainly not only hazardous but harrowing to a degree.

You can hold the beam of a television broadcast down to a degree or so these days, can’.

You can hold the beam of a television broadcast down to a degree or so these days, can't you?

How could they accomplish that to a degree of high mathematical probability?

Lish thought we were rusticated to a degree that defied our eventual education.

He had been working for some time at the language that was influenced by Finnish, and by 1915 he had developed it to a degree of some complexity.

June day toned down to a degree where it is heaven to be out of doors.

And thus I was entered a complete thief, hardened to the pitch above all the reflections of conscience or modesty, and to a degree which I must acknowledge I never thought possible in me.