Both Uses of
debase
in
The Thundering Herd
- Long had Tom Doan felt the encroachment of a mood he had at one time striven against—a morbid estimate of self, a consciousness that this carnage would debase him utterly if he did not soon abandon it.†
Chpt 18debase = degrade ( decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something
- Love of Milly abided, and that alone saved him from the utter debasement of hard life at a hard time.†
Chpt 18 *
Definition:
to degrade (decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something -- often morality or metals