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- adjective mathematics
Not degenerate .
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Examples
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The word "undegenerate," which is introduced only as an epithet, is the real predicate of the sentence.
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous
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The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. '
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Anyway, you now have tens of thousands of undegenerate Arkonides at your disposal.
Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975
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The Imperator's advisers had an idea how necessary the realm would someday find the fresh blood of undegenerate nobility.
Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975
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As for Thucydides, his knowledge of men, the fruit of patient experience deepened by disappointment, is felt behind every line of his book, as one descries it in the features of his undegenerate descendant
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Still beaconing from the heights of undegenerate years.
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The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. '...
The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912
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Still beaconing from the heights of undegenerate years.
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration. July 21, 1865 1909
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There was something very simple yet stately about him, though his face was hidden and as I gazed long and intently the idea got hold of me that he had been a king over an undegenerate Martian race, and had stood waiting for the Dawn a very, very long time.
Gulliver of Mars 1905
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The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. '...
The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904
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