Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun . The state of being hoary, whitish, or gray: as, the hoariness of age.
  • noun Moldiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being hoary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The characteristic of being hoary.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun great age (especially grey or white with age)
  • noun a silvery-white color

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Examples

  • Then he considered his beard and, seeing that the white hairs in it covered the black, bethought himself that hoariness is the harbinger of death.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As I understand it, it works like this: Let's say, for example, an aging rock band needs to draw attention to itself inexpensively due to both the moribund state of the record industry and its own increasing hoariness.

    Culling the Culture: Great Balls of Lips BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • From the time that a person notices the first gray strands, it can take ten years or more to complete the process of complete hoariness.

    Archive 2009-02-01 The Verger 2009

  • From the time that a person notices the first gray strands, it can take ten years or more to complete the process of complete hoariness.

    paraphenylenediamine rhymes with ... The Verger 2009

  • Knowest thou not that black is the ornament of youth and that, when hoariness descendeth upon the head, delights pass away and the hour of death draweth in sight?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • My heart and head are like in age with similar hoariness

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • At least your graybeard offers something to accompany his hoariness and odour.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines,464

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • ‘Quoth she to me, ‘I see thou dy’st thy hoariness;’ and I, ‘I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye!’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Pratt's story is a play on the familiar one about a mysterious disappearing, reappearing shop from which the protagonist purchases a magical object to be fair, Pratt acknowledges the hoariness of his premise--through a Twilight Zone reference, no less.

    The 2007 Hugo Award: The Short Story Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

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