Embasement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Embasement is a noun meaning (obsolete) The act of bringing down; lowering or deterioration.
Meaning
(obsolete) The act of bringing down; lowering or deterioration.
Example Sentences
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.
1744, Robert South, Posthumous Sermons, Sermon XIX in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, Oxford: Clarendon, 1823, Volume 5, p. 360, […] 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?
Word Forms
- embasements
Synonyms for embasement
Depending on context, synonyms include debasement.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abasement, debasement, degradation, abjection, dejection, downgrade.
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