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Opponents say the changes will debase the 850-year-old cathedral and disturb the harmony of its Gothic design.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

“But if you attach the claim of national security to many of your domestic policy preferences, you will debase the coinage.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2017

The fear in the intellectual marketplace, as in the mercantile one, is always that cheap currency will debase good.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who will debase his manly mind, For friendship every fool may share?

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

If greed or bigotry claims from town, city, or country, that which will debase her people, every boy and girl, every man and woman, should instantly frown it down.

From The True Citizen, How to Become One by Markwick, W. F.