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Definition of Baseness
1. Noun. Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.
Generic synonyms: Unworthiness
Derivative terms: Base, Base, Contemptible, Despicable, Despicable, Sordid, Sordid, Sordid
Definition of Baseness
1. n. The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
Definition of Baseness
1. Noun. The quality or condition of being base. ¹
2. Noun. The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baseness
1. the state of being base [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baseness
| baseload demand baseloads basely basename basenames baseness (current term) basenesses basenet basenets basenji | basenjis basepair basepairs basepath basepaths baseperson basepersons baseplate baseplate wax baseplates |
Literary usage of Baseness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishwoman in Russia: Impressions of the Society and Manners of the by A lady (1855)
"Government employes, their servility—baseness, and its fruits—Duty of the
senate—Dishonesty, ... There is no baseness too base, no dishonesty too dishonest, ..."
2. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"On the baseness of Ingratitude. A. /., Dec. 19.—Mr. Applebee,—In your last you
published a very feeling Complaint in a Letter signed Mr. T. Experience, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... for she testifies she and her husband were intimate with Des Granges, who,
when charged with his baseness, admitted it, but excused his conduct on the ..."
4. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... people to assemble in arms against the troops of their sovereign, but it won't
do. The people begin to see the baseness and villany of their leaders, ..."
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