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noun

Degeneracy n.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. "Willful degeneracy from goodness."

The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. "Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery." "To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy."

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Etymology of 'Degeneracy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Degeneracy" Quotes from Famous Books

... women and women of spirit and wit furthered all intellectual and social development; but it was the mistresses—those great women of political schemes and moral degeneracy—who were vested with the actual importance, and it must in justice to them be said that they not infrequently encouraged ...

— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme

... herbs, as, at one time, did all the people of our race. The study of God's works is a truly noble one, and such the enlightened Incas considered it; and therefore it was the especial study of young chiefs in bygone days. But, alas! in these times of our degeneracy, in that, as in many other points, we are grievously deficient ...

— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston

... includes them as accomplices. Not all officers, not all soldiers. That there should be a few is enough to sicken you of belonging to the human species. Nothing worse in Central America; nothing worse where civilized degeneracy disgraces savagery. ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... mourned over by thousands who have never heard of his theological writings. At one time the famous Canon of Notre Dame at Paris had an enthusiastic following; thousands flocked to his lectures from every country; his popularity was enormous. He combated the abuses of the age and the degeneracy of some of the clergy, and astonished and enraged many by the boldness of his speech and the novelty of his opinions. His views with regard to the doctrine of the Trinity expressed in his Introductio (Trait de la Trinit) were made the subject of a charge against ...

— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield

... age, in a nation marked for its degeneracy; nursed and reared in a church, as profligate as the world in which it was embedded; persecuted at every step of her career; groping as she did in spiritual desolation and ignorance, nevertheless, she arose to the highest pinnacle of pre-eminence in ...

— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

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