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In both works, just you so know, men are commanded, most debasingly, to kiss the feet of their … well, I was going to say “beloveds,” but that’s not quite the word.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2019

How strange that Mr. Mandeville should be so easily deceived in regard to Duffel! and how debasingly hypocritical was the dissembling villain!

From Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival by Addison, Alvin

It will come by the complete emancipation of the American mind from the thraldom of the false philosophies, the false theologies, and the debasingly narrow conceptions of science which have been transplanted into American colleges.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)