pejoration in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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This exemplifies a word that has undergone pejoration, which means that a negative association has become attached to it.
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Blank considers it problematic, though, to include amelioration and pejoration of meaning as well as strengthening and weakening of meaning.
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