Both Uses of
debase
in
Middlemarch
- But your cure must begin somewhere, and put it that a thousand things which debase a population can never be reformed without this particular reform to begin with.†
Chpt 5 *
- Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(debase) to degrade (decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something -- often morality or metals