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debased, ppl. a.|dɪˈbeɪst|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Lowered in estimation (obs.), in quality, or character: see the verb.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. ii. vii. (1611) 76 This so much despiced and debased authoritie of man. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 3 A debased currency. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia 9 One of a debased and degraded race.
2. Her. Of a charge: Borne upside down; reversed.
1864in Webster.
Hence deˈbasedness, debased character.
a1720W. Dunlop in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 59 The folly and danger of sin, the debasedness of its pleasures. 1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata xii. 189 The fettering debasedness of material cravings. |