Lexicographical Neighbors of Decadencies
Literary usage of Decadencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"For in the dead vast and middle of the years insidious foes are stirring—anaemic
refinements, cosmopolitan decadencies, Teutonic heresies, imperial lusts, ..."
2. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871)
"Many of our graces, late sown and late reaped, are nothing but decadencies.
They are the working out of that which in the midst of our vitality and vigor ..."
3. The Country of Horace and Virgil by Gaston Boissier (1896)
"... so young, so full of life, would, I fear, have resigned itself with difficulty
to the inevitable decadencies of age. Nor did Horace love old age, ..."
4. The History of Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Henry Crittenden Morris (1900)
"... but seldom, if ever, did they come in collision with each other.6 The decadencies
gave new birth, in remote regions, to the religion, /anners, language, ..."
5. Petrifactions and Their Teachings; Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1851)
"... and the long continuance of the irritability of the muscular fibre after death;
which are so many decadencies of organization, so to speak, ..."
6. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"Those who would carry the wave theory of progress into its widest application
may find support for their contention in the successive decadencies and ..."
7. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1884)
"... decadencies, in part to anatomical circumstance—as, for instance, whether at
the time and place of such impulse the epithelial or the connective-tissue ..."
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