Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which debases or lowers in estimation or in value; one who or that which degrades or renders mean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, debases.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
debases .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins)
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- But he was a debaser of the people as well as of the peerage.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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Born in slavery, reared in debasing servitude, and kept in ignorance and poverty, he was the unconscious debaser of all who came in contact with him, always excepting those who laboured in the name of Christ to improve him.
The Tragedy of the Negro in America: A Condensed History of the Enslavement, Sufferings, Emancipation, Present Condition and Progress of the Negro Race in the United States of America P. Thomas Stanford 1897
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He who had been master there, who had set in order those miles of stately columns, those seas of glittering gilt and crystal, he who had been magician, builder, creator, perverter, debaser -- he, Louis of France, the
The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890
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This tactless prelate made matters worse by an arrogant attitude, and afterward spoke of the King, who received him in sombre silence, as "that debaser of coinage, that proud and dumb image that knows nothing but to stare at people without saying anything."
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Of Ephraim, the debaser of the coin, we have spoken; also of the king's manner towards Jews.
Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878
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What unites the Republicans is a common faith in the early principles and practice of the Republic, a common persuasion that slavery, as it cannot but be the natural foe of the one, has been the chief debaser of the other, and a common resolve to resist its encroachments everywhen and everywhere.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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Crooks and Liars karoli 2010
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Peasant Women The peasant woman had less money and food than the noble, she wore plain, homemade clothes, had a low status in society, lived in a small hut or longhouse, and was often viewed as the debaser of men.
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