different between depravation vs embasement

English

Etymology

From Middle French dépravation, from Latin d?pr?v?ti? (“perversion, distortion, corruption, depravity”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?p.???ve?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

depravation (countable and uncountable, plural depravations)

1. Detraction; depreciation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
4. Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.

Usage notes

• Distinguish from deprivation.

Synonyms

• depravity

Danish

Noun

depravation c (singular definite depravationen, not used in plural form)

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Declension

Further reading

• “depravation” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Etymology

embase +? -ment

Noun

embasement (countable and uncountable, plural embasements)

1. (obsolete) The act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.
   • 1664, Richard Davis, “The Publisher to the Reader” in Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford, 2nd edition,^[1]

     It is true that now and then, in all Centuries from the Beginning of the World, there have appear’d some Persons of a Nature more refin’d, as if indeed (according to that Phancy of the Old Poets) some Prometheus had made them either of another Metall, or of another Temper, from the Vulgar, utterly above all Mixture with, or Embasement by the common Fashions of this World; who did make it the End of their Lives, by […] multiplying Variety of Experiments on all Bodies, to discover their hidden Vertues, and so to enlarge the Power and Empire of Man.

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 43,^[2]

     There is dross, alloy, and embasement in all human tempers; and he flieth without wings, who thinks to find ophir or pure metal in any.

   • 1744, Robert South, Posthumous Sermons, Sermon XIX in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, Oxford: Clarendon, 1823, Volume 5, p. 360,^[3]

     […] if the very condition of the creature gives it such a shortness, and hollowness, and disproportion to the desires of a rational soul, even in the most innocent and allowed pleasures; what shall we think of the pleasures of sin, which receive a further embasement and diminution from the superaddition of a curse?

Synonyms

• debasement