debasing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEBA'SING, participle present tense 1. Reducing in estimation or worth; adulterating; reducing in purity or elegance; degrading; rendering mean. 2. adjective Lowering; tending to debase or degrade; as debasing vices.
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