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Definition of Decadently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decadently
Literary usage of Decadently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reconstruction of Religion: A Sociological View by Charles Abram Ellwood (1922)
"So is much of our periodical reading matter and any number of 'movie' plays, over
the edge of the decadently erotic." However, after a careful discussion of ..."
2. Shakespeare by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1922)
"Repulsive scenes like those in the brothel at Mytilene seem to have been a
decadently popular feature of the Elizabethan stage in this era, and we have seen ..."
3. Studies in European Literature: Being the Taylorian Lectures 1889-1899 by Taylor Institution, Stéphane Mallarmé, Walter Pater (1900)
"... short stories some letters on a matter of fact—a Spanish bull-fight, in which
those old Romans, he regretted,'might seem, decadently, to have survived. ..."
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