Definition of Degenerates

1. Noun. (plural of degenerate) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of degenerate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Degenerates

1. degenerate [v] - See also: degenerate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degenerates

degeminations
degen
degender
degendered
degendering
degenders
degeneracies
degeneracy
degenerate
degenerate code
degenerate configuration
degenerate matter
degenerated
degenerately
degenerateness
degenerates (current term)
degenerating
degeneratio
degenerationist
degenerationists
degenerations
degenerative
degenerative arthritis
degenerative chorea
degenerative disc disease
degenerative disorder
degenerative index
degenerative inflammation
degenerative joint disease

Literary usage of Degenerates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"The Psychology of th« degenerates; the Psychology of the Mystics. ... The psychology of mystical degenerates is closely related to the psychology of ..."

2. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
""THE degenerates." "On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, That Jews might kiss and Infidels adore." Both these classes, and some others, ..."

3. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
""THE degenerates." "On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore. That Jews might kiss and Infidels adore." Both these classes, and some others, ..."

4. The Wall Street Point of View by Henry Clews (1900)
"Fortunes that are made by degenerates and regenerates contrasted. ... In Wall Street affairs we have many examples of the degenerates ; but they do not ..."

5. The Diseases of Society: The Vice and Crime Problem by George Frank Lydston (1906)
"... XIII ILLUSTRATIVE CRANIA AND PHYSIOGNOMIES OF degenerates— TYPES OF CRIMINALS WHATEVER views may be held regarding the relation of physical degeneracy ..."

6. Passion and Criminality: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Proal, Alfred Richard Allinson (1905)
"All degenerates are not irresponsible, for there are degenerates of a ... But, at the same time, there are inferior degenerates who are certainly not ..."

7. The Semi-insane and the Semi-responsible: (Demifous Et Demiresponsables) by Joseph Grasset (1907)
"LESSER degenerates i. Simple Degeneracy,—Simple degenerates are generally noticeable " for the slowness with which their intellectual evolution works; ..."

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