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    debased


    1. This nominal sum, therefore, is necessarily higher when the coin is much debased by clipping and wearing, than when near to its standard value


    2. Logic was taught first; ontology came in the second place; pneumatology, comprehending the doctrine concerning the nature of the human soul and of the Deity, in the third; in the fourth followed a debased system of moral philosophy, which was considered as immediately connected with the doctrines of pneumatology, with the immortality of the human soul, and with the rewards and punishments which, from the justice of the Deity, were to be expected in a life to come: a short and superficial system of physics usually concluded the course


    3. For example, that the needy are morally elevated while the wealthy are morally debased


    4. Frank had no idea how long the attack had lasted, only that when it was over, he was left feeling debased and worthless


    5. To have open air homosexual and heterosexual orgies and to spill innocent blood to gain favor from demons is the most debased a nation can become and is calling severe judgment upon themselves


    6. In this group were many turbulent individuals whose minds were bent on mischief, while about the fringe of this crowd there circulated those debased men who had been hired to make trouble for Jesus


    7. and he raved around the place, debased, his face terrible and grim1


    8. And this blind life of theirs is so debased,


    9. It was a lanky looking figure, but with a commanding presence that debased the relevance of everything else around it


    10. get out; indeed, you are of the debased

    11. Li Hongzhi debased and denounced the existing religions and Qigong without restraint


    12. And he repeatedly debased and desecrated Lord Buddha and Buddhism


    13. debased ourselves by placing value on greed and power to the point


    14. to be abused and debased by negresses


    15. He hated to have Angellina’s memory debased by having her accident listed as ‘alcohol related’, but he could see no way to prove otherwise


    16. Those husbands who are physically and/or verbally abusing their wives in an effort to try and control them with fear are not operating in true love, contrary to what they may be thinking in their warped and debased minds


    17. ity is also a quality of those who wish that their Souls are not debased


    18. And now here, in Chapter 17, Krishn classifies these worshippers as the most debased, for the only form of reverence


    19. Considered less than fully human by ones who considered themselves the most superior examples of humankind, they were ridiculed, debased, turned out of their homes and then hounded across the continent where they’d lived for countless generations


    20. when one is exalted, the other is debased

    21. Then he walked out of the place, leaving it with his spirit debased, dragging behind him the remnants of his failure and huge defeat


    22. They contended that all of this was fulfilled through collusion between Al’lah and the devil against His noble messenger, so that He debased him unjustly, in a way that was unprecedented, without his committing a sin (far be it for Him)


    23. She picked out the gloating chortle of some debased practitioner inflicting his ministrations, and she pushed on to land a further distance away, in a widening cavern under an iron-barred grate through which daylight filtered in from above


    24. “Angel, we are no longer in control of our destiny: our prestigious beautiful culture is being debased; our revered cultural norms that would preserve our heritage and dignity are completely eroded, our identity is gradually transforming to that of the white man, an alien culture, a strange custom and their own ways of life that satisfies their environment and their own fancy


    25. of art is debased to a certain extent, as some of its functions are inverted


    26. Because they victimized themselves, abased themselves in public, debased themselves in public, cringed, acted the coward, acted the fool; their host countries tolerated them enough to let them live inside their culture… by acting out this form of public self-degradation and humiliation, they were acting out the necessary signs of cultural submission so they could practice their own cultural superiority in private without being massacred and killed


    27. This is a fact most noteworthy, for it has had this effect, that in no place where the Bible in its integrity has been popularly read has the doctrine of evil spirits usurped a disproportionate share of attention, or debased the public mind through the pressure of an overwhelming burden of gloom


    28. * There are many who have been accustomed to wield the common dogma as an instrument of immense power over the imaginations of debased sinners, and who are capable of no other spiritual action, who will at once declare 'that Satan rejoices over the proposed change in the Church's faith


    29. "Oh!" she replied, "I don't wish to limit his acquirements: still, he has no right to appropriate what is mine, and make it ridiculous to me with his vile mistakes and mispronunciations! Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth! Besides, of all, he has selected my favourite pieces that I love the most to repeat, as if out of deliberate malice


    30. One American airman, shot down and relentlessly debased by his Japanese captors, described the state of mind that his captivity created: “I was literally becoming a lesser human being

    31. This is likely one of the reasons why Japanese soldiers in World War II debased their prisoners with such zeal, seeking to take from them that which was most painful and destructive to lose


    32. He looked up at her as she stood there, hand on heart, looked quietly, almost in prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long a kindly way, that frightened her


    33. Instead of working wickedness by night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it by day, she shall take her place with the other Angels


    34. ‘Oh!’ she replied, ‘I don’t wish to limit his acquirements: still, he has no right to appropriate what is mine, and make it ridiculous to me with his vile mistakes and mispronunciations! Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth! Besides, of all, he has selected my favourite pieces that I love the most to repeat, as if out of deliberate malice


    35. Madeleine had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, bankruptcy arrived


    36. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from falling amiss


    37. Mistrust of government runs high in India, and since gold can’t be debased and can be converted to cash in a hurry, it’s seen as a solid investment


    38. He had all the cold, hard, cruel, terrible features of the green warriors, but accentuated and debased by the animal passions to which he had given himself over for many years


    39. However much debased he may be, a man exacts instinctively respect for his character as a man


    40. Not only is the circle of men, from which the servants of the government and the rich men are chosen, growing all the time smaller and smaller, and more and more debased, but these men themselves no longer ascribe to the positions which they hold their former significance, and frequently, being ashamed of them, to the disadvantage of the cause which they serve, neglect to carry out what by their position they are called upon to do

    41. The whole civilized world is a spectator in the discussion of this resolution; and all the civilized nations in the world are and will be anxiously desirous to know, whether the United States of America, after having hitherto, with impunity, suffered all the aggressions of Great Britain, and after having suffered Great Britain, with impunity, to impress thousands of their seamen, and retain them on board of their armed ships and vessels, and compelling them to fight against nations with whom the United States are at peace; after having suffered Great Britain, with impunity, to murder their citizens, and after having suffered Great Britain with impunity to attack their sovereignty, in case of the Chesapeake frigate, will, after all these outrages and hostile acts, tamely, meekly, and patiently, submit and bow down to the lowest degree of debased degradation, and suffer Francis J


    42. I have so often debased the true metal of sincerity that anything I say must ring false—that anything I may give cannot be taken


    43. In truth, powerful—yet, as to any foreign effect, imbecile—rich, in the goods of fortune, yet wanting that inherent spirit without which a nation is poor indeed; their strength exhausted by struggles for local power; their moral sense debased by low intrigues for personal popularity, or temporary pre-eminence; all their thoughts turned not to the safety of the State, but to the elevation of a chieftain


    44. I am cruelly out of spirits at the idea of old England truckling to such a debased and accursed Government as that of the United States


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    Synonyms for "debased"

    corrupted debased vitiated degraded devalued adulterate adulterated

    "debased" definitions

    mixed with impurities


    lowered in value


    ruined in character or quality