1980, Elizabeth Robins, chapter X, in The Convert, Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 145:
But the phlegmatic Englishman won’t lead in that dégringolade.
1996, Benjamin Graham, edited by Seymour Benjamin Chatman, Benjamin Graham, the Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 277:
This mental dégringolade prompted unusual remedies.
2005, Thomas G. Guarino, Foundations of Systematic Theology, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 341:
To do so would be to mock the very congruency of faith and reason, of grace and nature; it would itself constitute a dégringolade toward fideism of the worst sort.