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Definition of Decays
1. decay [v] - See also: decay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decays
Literary usage of Decays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The one is, that all their breaches may be repaired, their decays recovered,
their backslidings healed : for unto these things they have been less or more ..."
2. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1909)
"I KNOW THAT ALL BENEATH THE MOON decays I know that all beneath the moon decays,
And what by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods shall ..."
3. The Seasons by James Thomson (1844)
"... Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns,
and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays! ..."
4. Serious Reflections on Time and Eternity by John Shower, Thomas Chalmers, Matthew Hale (1828)
"How Christians ought to examine their decays of grace and piety. The greatness
of their sin, and of their loss, under such a declension : God's displeasure, ..."
5. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... For 't is his nature to advance or die ; He stands not still, but or decays,
or Into a boundless blessing, which may vie With the immortal lights, ..."
6. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1866)
"... principally English Cloth, was purchased in Holland and sent to America, and
the old Continental currency, " like an aged man, expiring by the decays of ..."
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