All 5 Uses of
debase
in
The Ramayana
- How art thou, born of royal race, Blind to the crimes that kings debase?†
Book 2debase = degrade ( decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something
- The glory of the Warrior race With craven speech his lips debase?†
Book 2
- Her lord, with noble virtues graced, Her lord, by lack of all debased, Is still a God in woman's eyes, If duty's law she hold and prize.†
Book 2 *debased = degrade (decreased) the purity, quality, or status of something
- But he whom sensual joys debase Heeds not the claim of time and place, And sees not with his blinded sight His duty or his gain aright.†
Book 4debase = degrade ( decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something
- She fell upon the ground, and there Lay struggling with her wild despair, Sad as a lady born again To misery and woe and pain, Now doomed to grief and low estate, Once noble fair and delicate: Like faded light of holy lore, Like Hope when all her dreams are o'er; Like ruined power and rank debased, Like majesty of kings disgraced: Like worship foiled by erring slips, The moon that labours in eclipse; A pool with all her lilies dead, An army when its king has fled: So sad and helpless wan and worn, She lay among the fiends forlorn.†
Book 5debased = degrade (decreased) the purity, quality, or status of something
Definition:
to degrade (decrease) the purity, quality, or status of something -- often morality or metals