Definition for DE-GEN-ER-A'TION

DE-GEN-ER-A'TION, n.

  1. A growing worse, or losing of good qualities; a decline from the virtue and worth of ancestors; a decay of the natural good qualities of the species; a falling from a more excellent state to one of less worth, either in the natural or moral world.
  2. The thing degenerated. – Brown.

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