debasing

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• But alas, the stir, the scramble, the mad whirl of city life, the debasing contact with low material minds, the daily study of Prices Current, make even of me a muckworm. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice
• In many civilizations debasing a coin is a very serious offense and punishable by death. Mint Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
• Its position will be recognized on the vertical line between the frontal and occipital, as it is not an element of energy and success, nor of debility, but simply an element of debasing animalism, which is not destitute of force. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
• It contaminated the buildings that were finished, defiled the churches, debasing their purity of form; this, with the gross license of sculpture and painting, was the great stupration of the cathedrals. The Cathedral
• He lodges in the town near the school, and thus the debasing habit of unsocial besotment is not brought under the eyes of his superior. My Novel — Volume 12
• This is what I call debasing the moral currency," she says; George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
• The conscious or unconscious repetition of myths, clichés and fantasies surrounding the stereotypes of the Jew, hostile, denigratory and debasing, are still frequently represented both in the high-minded world of literature and in popular culture. Anglo-Jewish Writers: Twentieth Century.
• Irish patronymic Shea was euphonized into Shays, as a set-off for the debasing of French _chaise_ into _shay_, was more dangerous than that of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
• In ancient times, that meant "debasing" their coins — making them with less or inferior metals. Greek Crisis Provides a Chorus of Discord
• This is the only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek: haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all his commentators. Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850