Debasement of women in pornographic magazines and movies has steadily increased.
A strong currency helps you to plan for a future without a potential debasement of your money.
One group that disliked debasements included the guild members, shopkeepers, small merchants, and wage-earning artisans.
Of the two coinages we commonly exchange and which are liable to debasement, language is far more damaging than money.
Surveillance, aestheticization, classification, debasement, affirmation, naturalization, eroticization, and appropriation appear and reappear throughout the texts on the colonial experience.
The persistence of debasements throughout the medieval and early modern periods suggests that these interventions could not simply be futile efforts.
For example, merchants sometimes preferred debasements to increased taxation when the government faced fiscal difficulties.