Meanings of degenerate age in English

Sad instances of this kind we sometimes witness in this degenerate age.

They are good as young men go in a degenerate age.

The Lord High Chancellor, in this degenerate age, enjoys much more political power.

A degenerate age might take exceptions to some of the other taxes now instituted.

They sound no depth of soul, and are marked with the signet of a degenerate age.

No, sir, even in this degenerate age.

But this is a degenerate age.

Where, in this degenerate age, shall we find the like! He stopped to breathe a sound of intense exasperation.

It was formerly used daily by thousands of worshipers, but in this degenerate age nobody but tourists ever climb it.

But ours is, notwithstanding its manifold excellences, a degenerate age; and recreant knights are among us far outnumbering the true.

A degenerate age this, my son; not like the good old times, when men dare suffer and die for the faith.

She was the daughter of a nobleman who justly prided himself, in a degenerate age, on the virtue of his house.

In this degenerate age the ceremony terminates with this act, but for the feasting and speech-making which fill up the evening hours.

That of five hundred men, such as this degenerate age affords, a majority can be found thus virtuously abstracted, who will affirm?

Our degenerate age gets little "entertainment" out of sermons and usually keeps an encyclopædia strictly for "reference"; obviously Nairne read it.

It is one of St. Paul's characters of a most degenerate age, when "men become lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God."