- (a.) Decaying; deteriorating.
- (n.) One that is decadent or deteriorating; especially, one characterized by or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; -- specifically applied to a certain school of modern French writers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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