degenerate vs gentleman

degenerate

noun
  • One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature. 

verb
  • To cause to lose good or desirable qualities. 

  • To lose good or desirable qualities. 

adj
  • Having lost good or desirable qualities. 

  • Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal; an immoral or corrupt person. 

  • Having the same quantum energy level. 

  • Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range. 

  • Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors. 

gentleman

noun
  • Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man. 

  • Any man. 

  • An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means. 

  • An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment. 

  • An effeminate or oversophisticated man. 

  • A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight. 

How often have the words degenerate and gentleman occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )