Meanings of degenerate boy in English

You come well, you come happily, to witness me curse that base and degenerate boy.

If you had been tutor to this degenerate boy, the worst trouble of my life would not have overtaken me!

And how will the kind and noble being who fills that mother's place in our affections and home, mourn over her weak and degenerate boy.

'Alarms,' continued he, 'which will readily find admittance to the weak mind of a woman, but which the firmer nature of man should disdain.-Degenerateboy!