Decadence is valid Scrabble Word

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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for DECADENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a falling away; decay, also DECADENCY
moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury
luxurious self-indulgence
deterioration in morality or culture
Alt. of Decadency
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the process of becoming decadent; the quality or state of being decadent

Words related to DECADENCE

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Words that contain DECADENCE

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How to use DECADENCE in a sentence

I believe that Europe is threatened with decadence more owing to the Peace Treaties than as a result of the War.
His chief fame rests in the fact that he was father of Lucan, the poet of the decadence or declining literature of Rome.
The Catalan would always end by speaking sadly of the decadence of the Mediterranean marine.
The luxury or what might have seemed luxury on the border, had in it nothing of decadence.
But the account he gives of the decadence of art is historically untrue as well as unintelligible.
Then let us have no more sentimental lamentation over the decadence of chivalry.
In every fiber of his character he felt the influences of Italian decadence, even while he reacted against them.
After a period of decadence they broke out afresh in 1349, as a consequence of the deadly pestilence.
But let us return to the decadence of Buddhism in India.
DECADENCE OF BUDDHISM IN INDIA BOOK V HINDUISM XXV.

The political and military decadence of the Mongols has been ascribed by some authors to Lamaism and to the substitution of priestly for warlike ideals.
Decadence in art is often far from being artistic deterioration.
There is no sign of the decadence of the aristocracy here.
When I knew this theatre first, it had fallen into a state of seemingly hopeless decadence.
On the other hand, it is common to hear the kiva chief lament the decadence of its membership.
We believe there are many factors underlying the technical decadence we must regret.
The dynasty of the Asens became extinct in 1257, and a period of decadence began.
This period of gradual decadence is, however, the period of greatest diffusion of the products of Minoan, or, rather, as we may now call it, of Mycenaean art.
Let there be no talk hereafter of the decadence of the race.
It is easy to make mournful predictions of decadence.
Bambang, like nearly all the other Nueva Vizcaya towns we had seen or were to see, shows signs of decadence.
Now, it is this horrible fairy tale of a man constantly changing into other men that is the soul of the Decadence.
In his Sei-Ki, or political history of Japan, he traced the history of the imperial family, and mourned with characteristic pathos the decadence of the imperial power.
He went so far as to form views about the decadence of the theatre as an institution.
He checked this decadence, at least for the time being, but passed away before he was able to subdue it.
The empire, then in its decadence, could not drive them back, and they obtained a permanent foothold there.
Yet all the while we seem to be dealing not with the expansion or decadence of a nation, but with great nobles who add to their estates or go bankrupt.
These were not days of decadence, but a period that gave the world Shakespeare, Martin Luther, and Raphael, Haroun-al-Raschid and Abraham Lincoln.

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