Word Meanings - ABASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

abaisser, LL. abassare, abbassare ; ad + bassare, fr. bassus low. See 1. To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton. 2. To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office,

Additional info about word: ABASE

abaisser, LL. abassare, abbassare ; ad + bassare, fr. bassus low. See 1. To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton. 2. To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll. Syn. -- To Abase, Debase, Degrade. These words agree in the idea of bringing down from a higher to a lower state. Abase has reference to a bringing down in condition or feelings; as to abase one's self before God. Debase has reference to the bringing down of a thing in purity, or making it base. It is, therefore, always used in a bad sense, as, to debase the coin of the kingdom, to debase the mind by vicious indulgence, to debase one's style by coarse or vulgar expressions. Degrade has reference to a bringing down from some higher grade or from some standard. Thus, a priest is degraded from the clerical office. When used in a moral sense, it denotes a bringing down in character and just estimation; as, degraded by intemperance, a degrading employment, etc. "Art is degraded when it is regarded only as a trade."

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABASE)

• Decry
• Depreciate
• traduce
• vituperate
• disparage
• defame
• vilify
• derogate
• detract
• censure
• abase
• denounce

Related words: (words related to ABASE)

• TRADUCENT
  Slanderous. Entick.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• DETRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being detractive.
• DETRACTINGLY
  In a detracting manner.
• ABASED
  Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield. (more info) 1. Lowered; humbled. 2. Etym:
• ABASER
  He who, or that which, abases.
• DEROGATELY
  In a derogatory manner.
• DECRY
  To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried
• VILIFY
  1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and
• ABASEMENT
  The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
• TRADUCE
  as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. Glanvill. 2.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• DETRACTIOUS
  Containing detraction; detractory. Johnson.
• DEPRECIATE
  To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth.
• DISPARAGER
  One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.
• SELF-ABASED
  Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.