degree
noun
any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale.
degreeless
-
a word derived from
degree.
Example Sentences
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A learned incongruity among his erudite colleagues is Edward Wilber Berry, degreeless dean of Johns Hopkins University.
From Time Magazine Archive
The obvious question is whether a degreeless society would produce enough skilled people to bring technology under control.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wanted the ringleader to go degreeless, but a faculty committee turned him down.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it had not been for Edwin’s fondness for apples, I should have been degreeless to this day.”
From Molly Brown's College Friends by Nell Speed
The case of those who are in the last selection and are left degreeless, for the stern reason that some must be crowded out, is the hardest of all.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various
