Definition of "debasing" [debasing]

• Present participle of debase. (verb)

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• ""This is what I call debasing the moral currency," she says;"
• "[The reader:] The fact that you cannot determine that sexual perversions such as sodomy are debasing is in itself evidence that you are unable to determine what the truth is at this time."
• "“This is what I call debasing the moral currency,” she says; “lowering the value of every inspiring fact and tradition so that it will command less and less of the spiritual products, the generous motives which sustain the charm and elevation of our social existence ” the something besides bread by which man saves his soul alive.”"