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decadency

noun as in declension

noun as in declination

noun as in degeneration

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Saint Augustine hath writ that this is the very type and emblem of us mortal beings: the shining soul that must drag around the corpse of the body and its vile decadencies.

She should have undertaken “Trump-style” electioneering that would have been “very aggressive against those who are responsible for the country’s decadency,” he said.

He said that in her position, he would have done a “Trump-style” campaign that would have been “very aggressive against those who are responsible for the country’s decadency.”

Sometimes, and with a sharp effect of contrast, occurred prosperous squares; but even these, with their houses so uniformly tall and ocherous, delivered a presage of irremediable decadency.

It shall concern psychic phenomena, yearnings, root-causes, the untrammelled life, strange decadencies, and things like that.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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