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

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Definition of Degenerates

1. degenerate [v] - See also: degenerate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degenerates

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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