For whoſoeuer exalteth himſelfe ſhalbeabaſed: and hee that humbleth himſelfe, ſhalbe exalted.
1657,John Ball, “By Faith a True Believer may be Certain and Infallibly Assured of the Remission of His Sins and Eternal Salvation”, inA Treatise of Faith: Divided into Two Parts: The First Shewing the Nature, the Second, the Life of Faith.[…], 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for Edward Brewster,[…],→OCLC,page106:
Our adverſaries object againe, that by praying that Chriſts merits may be made ours in particular, we greatlyabaſe them. As though the ProphetDavid didabaſe God in making him his in particular, ſaying,the Lord is my rock, my fortreſſe, my God, and my ſtrength, my ſhield, the horne of my ſalvation, and my refuge:[…]
When a large kingdomabases itself to a small principality, it acquires that principality, and when a small stateabases itself to a large one, it obtains service (or protection) under the large one. It is for this purpose that the small state submits, and the large kingdom annexes the small states for the purpose of uniting and maintaining the people.
Her gracious words their rancour did appall, / And ſuncke ſo deepe into their boyling breſts, / That downe they lett their cruel weapons fall, / And lowly didabaſe their lofty creſts, / To her faire preſence, and diſcrete beheſts.
[A]ll of you together ſhall pay for the great blaſphemy thou haſt ſpoken againſt ſo immenſe a beautie, as is that of my Miſtreſſe. And ſaying ſo, heabaſed hisLaunce againſt him that had anſwered with ſuch furie and anger, as if good fortune had not ſo ordayned it, thatRozinante ſhould ſtumble, and fal in the midst of the Carrier, it had gone very ill with the bold Merchant.
In early January, [then Washington Post Opinion Editor David] Shipley rejected a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning staffer Ann Telnaes, whose proposed sketch showed Bezos alongside other tech and media billionairesabasing themselves before Trump.
1629 February 12,John Donne, “Sermon CXXXVI. A Lent Sermon Preached to the King, at Whitehall, February 12, 1629”, inHenry Alford, editor,The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s, 1621–1631.[…] In Six Volumes, volume V, London:John W[illiam] Parker,[…], published1839,→OCLC,page450:
Though in the nature thereof, that with which a purer metal is mixed, be not base; yet, itabases the purer metal.[…] [T]hough silver be a precious metal, yet itabases gold. Grace, and peace, and faith, are precious parts of our treasure here; yet, if we mingle them, that is, compare them with the joys, and glory of heaven;[…] weabase, and over-alloy these joys, and that glory.
1840,Rogers Ruding, “Elizabeth”, inAnnals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies; from the Earliest Period of Authentic History to the Reign of Victoria, 3rd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for John Hearne,[…], by Manning and Mason,[…],→OCLC,page341:
[H]er majesty [Elizabeth I of England] let them all to understand, that she never intended (God's grace assisting her) to leese the fruit of so famous an act, byabasing the coin of the realm, which she found to be for the more part copper, and had now recovered it to be as fine, or rather finer, sterling silver, than ever it was in the realm by the space of two hundred years or more; a matter worth marking and memory.
^Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors),Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998],→ISBN), page 2
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