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Definition of Decayers
1. decayer [n] - See also: decayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decayers
Literary usage of Decayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1853)
"reasonable actions, wilt thou now swallow an unreasonable misfortune? If many
cares be the decayers of the minde, if many sorrowes the consumers of the body ..."
2. History of England by Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout (1908)
"... are the devourers of men, and sheep masters the decayers of husbandry."
Noblemen and gentlemen, for the sake of gain, leave no ground for tillage but ..."
3. Journal of Social Science: Containing the Proceedings of the American by American Social Science Association, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root (1879)
"... were exclaimed against as " the manifest oppressors of the poor and decayers
of the rich, as public enemies, cankers, and gnawing worms that daily ..."
4. Journal of Social Science by American Social Science Association (1879)
"... were exclaimed against as " the manifest oppressors of the poor and decayers
of the rich, as public enemies, cankers, and gnawing worms that daily ..."
5. Social Changes in England in the Sixteenth Century as Reflected in by Edward Potts Cheyney (1895)
"... were spoken of as “pullers down of towns,” “wasters of houses and villages,”
and “decayers of towns.” The earliest law against inclosures, in 1489, ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of English Fiction by William Edward Simonds (1894)
"If many cares be the decayers of the mind, if many sorrows the consumers of the
body, better were it by day to study the liberal sciences, than at such time ..."
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