decadence

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Freddy had died as he had lived, an almost perfect example of England's manhood--a striking proof that her decadence was an ugly scandal, whose birthplace was Berlin.

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  1. noun A process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals or art; decay.
  2. noun A literary movement especially of late 19th-century France and England characterized by refined aestheticism, artifice, and the quest for new sensations.

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  1. French décadence, from Old French decadence, from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, a decaying, declining, from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, to decay; see decay.

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  1. from French décadence = Spanish Portuguese decadencia = Italian decadenza, from Middle Latin decadentia, decay, from Middle Latin *decaden(t-)s, decaying: see decadent, and cf. cadence.
 

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/dəˈkeɪdəns/
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