"embasement" meaning in English

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          "text": "1744, Robert South, Posthumous Sermons, Sermon XIX in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, Oxford: Clarendon, 1823, Volume 5, p. 360,\n[…] if the very condition of the creature gives it such a shortness, and hollowness, and disproportion to the desires of a rational soul, even in the most innocent and allowed pleasures; what shall we think of the pleasures of sin, which receive a further embasement and diminution from the superaddition of a curse?"
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