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▪ I. debasing, vbl. n.|dɪˈbeɪsɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb debase.
1891Athenæum 3 Oct. 448/1 In the fatal debasing of the coinage.
▪ II. deˈbasing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That debases.
1775in Ash. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 191 The misery of a debasing pauperism. 1876J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. I. i. iv. 198 Mahometanism..is as debasing..as it is false.
Hence deˈbasingly adv.
1847in Craig. 1892Harper's Mag. Nov. 946/1 It indicated more ignorance of what is debasingly called Life than knowledge of it. |