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Definition of Basest
1. base [adj] - See also: base
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basest
Literary usage of Basest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"It is an act of envy ; and one of the basest on record in fiction or in fact. .
. . Great as was usually the care ..."
2. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... the Seating of Hayes and Wheeler by Benjamin A. Willis [NY]: "The basest of
Conspiracies"—Reply by Simeon B. Chittenden [NT]: "Who Are the Conspirators? ..."
3. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"... the Seating of Hayes and Wheeler by Benjamin A. Willis [NY]: "The basest of
Conspiracies"—Reply by Simeon B. Chittenden [NT]: "Who Are the Conspirators? ..."
4. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Classical, Mediæval, Legendary; Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... the vilest and basest character, although not the most wickedly malicious,
that Shakespeare wrought.—RG WHITE. The comic part of the play turns on the ..."
5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"'T is no Man we celebrate, By his country's victories great, Till the basest can
no longer cower, Feeling his soul spring up divinely tall, Touched but in ..."
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