embasement means the act of bringing down; lowering or deterioration. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From embase + -ment.
noun
- The act of bringing down; lowering or deterioration.“1664, Richard Davis, “The Publisher to the Reader” in Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford, 2nd edition,
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 eit”