Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Old age; elderliness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Old age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Old age.
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- noun
old age
Etymologies
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Examples
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Your average grizzled patriarch stumbles about making the same mistakes in his senectitude that he had in adolescence, learning nothing, "believing in the same white list of approved 20-carat lies."
Borne Ceaselessly Into the Future Kerry Howley 2011
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Elsewhere, the faculty engaged in a few demonstrations of their own, a favorite being the manipulation of the orbicularis oris muscle to demonstrate how human beings, from infancy through senectitude, perpetuate the universal sign of affection.
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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Three-and-twenty years form a large portion of the short life of man, -- one-third, as nearly as can be expressed in unbroken numbers, of the entire term fixed by the psalmist, and full one-half, if we strike off the twilight periods of childhood and immature youth, and of senectitude weary of its toils.
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"I attribute my senility -- let others say senectitude," he shouts in his cheery way, "to a certain playful devilry of spirit,
Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900
qms commented on the word senectitude
Joe Biden is known for his rectitude
The goblin is famed for ineptitude;
But values aside
The folk will decide
Which man is less sunk in senectitude.
May 10, 2019