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Webster 1913 Edition
Decrepitude
De-crep′i-tude
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
décrépitude
.] The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Definition 2024
decrepitude
decrepitude
See also: décrépitude
English
Noun
decrepitude (countable and uncountable, plural decrepitudes)
- the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
- There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude?
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
Translations
the state of being decrepit
Portuguese
Noun
decrepitude f (usually uncountable, plural decrepitudes)
- decrepitude (the state of being decrepit)