degeneracies

These three languages, being all degeneracies from the Latin, resemble one another so much, that I doubt the probability of keeping in the head a distinct knowledge of them all.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

These three languages, being all degeneracies from the Latin, resemble one another so much, that I doubt the probability of keeping in the head a distinct knowledge of them all.

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thomas Jefferson 1784

The point is that light-like vectors, yes, have a squared-length of zero, but they are not degeneracies in the form, because there are other vectors that give nonzero inner products with them.

Bad Language: Metric vs Metric Tensor vs Matrix Form vs Line Element 2009

Mankind will pardon _me_, a native of that country, if smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied _degeneracies_, I shall use my modest endeavors to prevent the _loss_ of a country so signalized for the _profession_ of the purest _Religion_, and for the _protection_ of

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

What I mean by degeneracies will be hereafter explained.

Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Now we see that governments differ from each other in their form, and that some of them are defective, others [1275b] as excellent as possible: for it is evident, that those which have many deficiencies and degeneracies in them must be far inferior to those which are without such faults.

Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Of that golden age, Cotton Mather himself, "smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied degeneracies," sat down to write the history, recording in the _Magnalia_ "the great things done for us by our God," in the hope that he might thereby do something "to prevent the loss of the primitive principles and the primitive practices."

Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909

It is only when these advanced souls view the degeneracies of "civilized" life that they feel sorrow and pain.

A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897

Germans are not the rod predestined for the chastening of these degeneracies, who knows whether we may not again, like our fathers in dim antiquity, have to gird on our swords and go forth to seek dwelling-places for our increase?

Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890

Here, in this distant land, and this secluded section, they are able to develope without contact with that effeminate degeneracies of the outside world, or the dangerous tendencies of modern civilization.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884