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Definitions for Baseness
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. baseness, sordidness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicabilitynoun

    unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

Wiktionary

  1. basenessnoun

    The quality or condition of being base.

  2. basenessnoun

    The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Basenessnoun

    Etymology: from base.

    Such is the power of that sweet passion,
    That it all sordid baseness doth expel. Edmund Spenser, Hymn on Love.

    When a man’s folly must be spread open before the angels, and all his baseness ript up before those pure spirits, this will be a double hell. South.

    Your soul’s above the baseness of distrust:
    Nothing but love could make you so unjust. John Dryden, Aureng.

    We alleged the fraudulent obtaining and executing his patent, the baseness of his metal, and the prodigious sum to be coined. Jonathan Swift.

    Why brand they us
    With base? with baseness? bastardy? William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    The just and measured proportion of the air percussed towards the baseness or trebleness of tones, is one of the greatest secrets in the contemplation of sounds. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.

ChatGPT

  1. baseness

    Baseness is a term used to describe a lack of moral principles or values. It refers to ethical inferiority or dishonorable behaviors and attitudes, often associated with greed, selfishness, cowardice, or dishonesty. It may also indicate a low or inferior quality or standing.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Basenessnoun

    the quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Baseness in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Baseness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Baseness in a Sentence

  1. James Russell Lowell:

    In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  2. Leon Trotsky:

    Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  3. William Shakespeare:

    Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.

  4. Bryant McGill:

    Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.

  5. Akhlak-i-Jalali:

    All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*

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