▪ I. debasing, vbl. n.
(dɪˈbeɪsɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb debase.
| 1891 Athenæum 3 Oct. 448/1 In the fatal debasing of the coinage. |
▪ II. deˈbasing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That debases.
| 1775 in Ash. 1837 H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 191 The misery of a debasing pauperism. 1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. I. i. iv. 198 Mahometanism..is as debasing..as it is false. |
Hence deˈbasingly adv.
| 1847 in Craig. 1892 Harper's Mag. Nov. 946/1 It indicated more ignorance of what is debasingly called Life than knowledge of it. |