Lexicographical Neighbors of Debuses
Literary usage of Debuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray (1840)
"... neither debuses himself by cringing to them, nor is tempted to purchase their
favour by dishonourable means. But the sinner has forfeited every ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... any personal injury, would amaze me, if 1 did not know how {ш party zeal
debuses the understandings of those who in other matters arc wise and good. ..."
3. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1847)
"... only darkens, weakens, enslaves, and debuses all of these noblest powers of man.
Hent hen- ism mav be compared to the lonely wild.s of an interminable ..."
4. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"Nor can it, in our judgment, bo upheld as such, if, while facilitating in some
degree the circulation of the notes, it debuses and injures the currency in ..."
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