Crossword-Solution: DEBASES 7 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Yet he was pointed to his own works, and comforted thus: The more fully [sincerely and frankly] one confesses, and the more he humiliates himself and debases himself before the priest, the sooner and better he renders satisfaction for his sins; for such humility certainly would earn grace before God.

But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it, and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

And I had far sooner hear a people asking of every scheme of good, Will it pay? than throwing themselves headlong into that merely sentimental charity to which superstitious nations have always been prone—charity which effects no permanent good, which, whether in Hindostan or in Italy, debases, instead of raising, the suffering classes, because it breaks the laws of social economy.

Here the corruption which debases democracies was as unknown as the discontents which undermine the thrones of monarchies.

There are some spheres the contact with which inevitably degrades the high, debases the pure, deforms the beautiful.