Both Uses
degenerate
in
King Lear
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- —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.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(degenerate) to grow worse; or describing a person or situation that is worse in the sense of deviating from what is socially acceptable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)