Story highlights. Michael Skakel, a Kennedy relative convicted of the 1975 murder of a 15-year-old neighbor, walked out of a Connecticut courthouse Thursday on bail.
In England the Decadents were 1890s figures such as Arthur Symons (âthe blond angelâ), Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson, who were members of the Rhymersâ Club or contributors to The Yellow Book.
Definition of decadence. 1 : the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent the decadence of modern society escape the decadence that attends upon old age â G. L. Dickinson. 2 : a period of decline.