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Definition of Degenerately
1. adv. In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
Definition of Degenerately
1. Adverb. In a degenerate manner ¹
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Definition of Degenerately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Degenerately
Literary usage of Degenerately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1758)
"... an.d that he < is the Father of gods and men; I conceive he never would «
think meanly or degenerately concerning ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Milton, John Mitford, Walter Scott (1850)
"... and that blindness worse than this, That saw not how degenerately I serv'd.
MAN. I cannot praise thy marriage choices, son, Rather approv'd them not; ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"degenerately, (de-jen'-er-ate-le) ad. In an unworthy or base manner.
DEGENERATION, (de-jen-er-a'-shun) ns A deviation from the virtue of one s ancestors ..."
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