What is the quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak called?
baseness — The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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