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Definition of Debasement
1. Noun. Being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating.
2. Noun. Changing to a lower state (a less respected state).
Generic synonyms: Change Of State
Specialized synonyms: Dehumanisation, Dehumanization, Animalisation, Animalization, Brutalisation, Brutalization, Barbarisation, Barbarization, Bastardisation, Bastardization, Corruption, Subversion, Demoralisation, Demoralization, Constipation, Deadening, Impairment, Stultification, Popularisation, Popularization, Vulgarisation, Vulgarization, Profanation, Abasement, Humiliation, Vulgarisation, Vulgarization
Derivative terms: Debase, Degrade, Degrade
Definition of Debasement
1. n. The act of debasing or the state of being debased.
Definition of Debasement
1. Noun. The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality. ¹
2. Noun. The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Debasement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debasement
| debarker debarkers debarking debarks debarment debarments debarred debarring debars debase | debased debaser debasers debases debasing debasingly debatable debatably debate debateable | debated debateful debatement debatements |
Literary usage of Debasement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with by Stephen Colwell (1859)
"The debasement of the coins was carried much farther in France than in England.
... Such a succession of frauds as this debasement of the French coins ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"To this was added the loss »nil inconvenience arising from the debasement of the
currency often resorted to by sovereigns as well as by repub- Ikan states. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"And that his person was the subject of this debasement and humiliation. But to
speak yet more distinctly, the matter of his satisfaction lies in these three ..."
4. Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons: Compiled Into Eight Studies, and by John Fletcher (1852)
"But we refer all these displays of debasement to the result of the degradation,
of which slavery is only the moral, the natural consequence. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Until coinage became a state function a continued debasement was impossible,
since it was open to any one to refuse the money offered in payment if' it was ..."
6. Man's unconscious passion by Wilfrid Lay (1920)
"I. debasement of the Love Object Continuing from the place last quoted (p.
167), Freud says: "The chief protective means against such disorder (psychic ..."
7. English Heraldry by Charles Boutell (1867)
"Later debasement. Revival of English Heraldry. Heraldic Art. " Sans changer."—MOTTO
OF STANLEY. ENGLISH Heraldry, as it exists amongst us in our own times, ..."
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