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Definition of Decadences
1. decadence [n] - See also: decadence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decadences
Literary usage of Decadences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... other things there may be times of darkness and times of light, there may be
risings, decadences and revivals. In science there is only progress. ..."
2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... so rightly-balanced, that no abnormalities of his early rough days, nor contact
with decadences of super- civilization, had touched him to his hurt. ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... decadences of culture, adolescents suffered first and most. Eloquence, which
can only flourish in a free state, for the existence of which in turn it is ..."
4. History of Art by Elie Faure (1921)
"It then presents, like all decadences, a double character of puerility quite
comparable to that of the stammering attempts of the negroes of South Africa, ..."
5. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"... logical and linguistic decadences arose in one who hated scholasticism and
had no liking for the law, to which his father would have apprenticed him. ..."
6. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"But all decadences are given to exaggeration of this kind; and the reviews of
the closing years of the nineteenth century in England will furnish much more ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"That spirit, so young, so full of life, would I fear have resigned itself with
difficulty to the inevitable decadences of age. Nor did Horace love old age, ..."
8. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1900)
"Milosz (OW) Le poeme des decadences. Paris, 1899. sq. 16°. O'Kelly (C.) The Jacobite
war in Ireland (1688-1691). Dublin, 1894. nar. 12°. ..."
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