Both Uses of
degenerate
in
King Lear
- — Degenerate bastard!†
Scene 1.4
- A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded.†
Scene 4.2 *
Definition:
to grow worse; or describing a person or situation that is worse in the sense of deviating from what is socially acceptable