Examples of debase

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First, regarding dependency as part of the normal human experience neither elevates nor debases it.
She debases, brings down to earth, lends a bodily substance to things, and destroys; but, first of all, she is the principle that gives birth.
Meanness may detract from sublimity, and that is characterised as reliance upon phrases" debased by common use".
Their existence debases certainly the performance and influences the stability of the robotic performance.
Various new indirect taxes were introduced, and in the late 1650s and early 1660s the coinage was debased.
Neither medical nor classical moral therapies were intrinsically bad, debased or misguided ; they simply failed to work.
In relativism, so it is said, every valuation is debased to" a matter of taste", on which anyone's opinion is as good as anyone else's.
Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
The needy can come to seem permanently debased.
Quite the reverse in fact, for government rests on the exercise of power, and power, inevitably, debases man and distorts personality.
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