Meaning of Decadent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person affected by moral decay.
2. Alternative spelling of decadent.
   alt-of, alternative

Equivalents

Examples

“L. Douglas He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.”

“The Décadent was speaking to his soul— / Poor useless thing, he said, / Why did God burden me with such as thou? / The body were enough, / The body gives me all.”

“It is true, that the senses have by the Décadents been declared the only purveyors, the only intermediaries, between ourselves and Universal Nature. But that charge, which to some would be a most terrible one, loses much of its character when we come to see what the Décadents understand by senses and discover that they mean something quite different from what our pseudo-philosophers ever thought; in fact there is nothing in their dictionaries that approaches what the Décadents mean.”

“The décadent, as he is now called, decomposes the page into the paragraph, the paragraph into the sentence, the word, the letter.”

“Somov is a décadent not only in the philosophic import of his art, but also in his very technique and painting.”

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