1893 19 Mar. 17/3 The Visionists are..anti-decadent in every fibre, but ‘decadent’ and impressionistic by sympathy to the last degree.
1928 ‘E. T. Raymond’ 38 The Decadents held that art must have no object. The Anti-Decadents held, on the other hand, that art is nothing without an object.
2005 6 Dec. 22 Starling's message seems anti-decadent, almost puritanical.