decay
verb (used without object)
to become decomposed; rot.
undecaying
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a word derived from
decay.
Example Sentences
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Around rise other crags and other peaks, all arrayed and the deformity of their vast desolation softened down by the undecaying investiture of nature.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Henry Cabot Lodge
The eternal youth, the undecaying grandeur of nature, illumined by that celestial light which lends glory to ruins, and throws the illusion of beauty over the features of decay!
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
This interior vitality, this unalloyed and undecaying purity may be described one way as a real idealism.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
Oh, the outward hath gone!--but, in glory and power, The Spirit surviveth the things of an hour; Unchanged, undecaying, its Pentecost flame On the heart's secret altar is burning the same!
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
Let undecaying youth be thine, and let thy energy be like that of fire.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
