What is "degeneracies"

Usage examples of "degeneracies".

And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness, but a bigotted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers, and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things, and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots, rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?

Nameless degeneracies had drained it of dignity or vigor, but something remained there, glimmering beneath the dirt.