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Evidently no syndromes of degenerescence there!— The Task of Social Hygiene
But Morel's conception of degenerescence has unfortunately been coarsened and vulgarized. [— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
T. 1: Grandeur et degenerescence d'une famille princiere.— U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
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

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