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 *debase = degrade ( decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something
- the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.†
Chpt 8debasing = degrading (decreasing) the purity, quality, or status of something
Definitions:
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(1)
(debase) to degrade (decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something -- often morality or metals
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus