undeˈgenerating, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
| 1606 in Nichols Progr. Jas. I (1828) II. 51 We of hereditary and fee-simple blood, and undegenerating valour. 1693 Evelyn tr. De la Quint. Compl. Gardener, Melons 1 The most Undegenerating sort of Melons are..of a middling Size. 1753 West Odes Pindar, Nemean Odes xi, Him, whose undegenerating Breast Swells with a Tide of Spartan Blood. |