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to grow worse; or describing a person or situation that is worse in the sense of deviating from what is socially acceptable
- Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive.Chapter 16 (70% in)
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