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Webster 1913 Edition
Oldness
Old′ness
,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)
- 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
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xviij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
Translations
state of being old