Definitions
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- noun Same as
degeneration .
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- noun
degeneration
Etymologies
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From French dégénérescence
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Examples
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Many Norman hamlets are every whit as bad, and, in Normandy, conditions are aggravated by a marked predilection for the bottle, which, as French social-scientists have been pointing out for some years now, is fast hastening the degenerescence of the peasantry, both morally and physically.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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But Morel's conception of degenerescence has unfortunately been coarsened and vulgarized. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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