The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson.
The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.
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