Currencies throughout history have fallen victim to debasement. Today, we avoid this problem by omitting the precious metals altogether.
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Debasement
/dɪˈbeɪsmənt/
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His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.
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She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
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There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.
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