Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of embasing, or the state of being embased; a vitiated, impaired, or debased condition; depravation; debasement.
- noun Same as
embasis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of bringing down;
depravation ;deterioration .
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Examples
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There is dross, alloy, and embasement in all human tempers; and he flieth without wings, who thinks to find ophir or pure metal in any.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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There is dross, alloy, and embasement in all human tempers; and he flieth without wings, who thinks to find ophir or pure metal in any.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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And if the very condition of the creature gives it such a shortness, and hollowness, and disproportion to the desires of a rational soul, even in the most innocent and allowed pleasures; what shall we think of the pleasures of sin, which receive a further embasement and diminution from the superaddition of a curse?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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