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Webster 1913 Edition


Oldness

Old′ness

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Noun.
The state or quality of being old; old age.

Webster 1828 Edition


Oldness

OLDNESS

, n.
1.
Old age; an advanced state of life or existence; as the oldness of a man, of an elephant or a tree.
2.
The state of being old, or of a long continuance; as the oldness of a building or a garment.
3.
Antiquity; as the oldness of monuments.

Definition 2024


oldness

oldness

English

Noun

oldness (usually uncountable, plural oldnesses)

  1. The state of being old; age.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xviij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
      So that I may reste bitwene thyn armes / for thow arte a clene vyrgyn aboue all knyghtes as the floure of the lyly / in whome vyrgynyte is sygnefyed /and thou arte the rose the whiche is the floure of al good vertu / & in coloure of fyre / For the fyre of the holy ghoost is take so in the / that my flesshe which was al dede of oldenes / is become yonge ageyne

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