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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

I once did hold it a

baseness

to write fair.

Shakespeare

Noun.

Meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

Vileness of metal; the quality of being of little comparative value.

Bastardy; illegitimacy of birth.

Deepness of sound.

baseness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural basenesses)

the state of being vile