decrepitude

[ dih-krep-i-tood, -tyood ]

/ dɪˈkrɛp ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

decrepit condition; dilapidated state; feebleness, especially from old age.

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1595–1605; < French décrépitude, derivative of décrépit decrepit; see -tude

Face it, we like our blues singers to show some signs of decrepitude.
Do Blues Musicians Need to be Really, Really Old?|Ted Gioia|September 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I speak not, of course, of the decrepitude of old age and of the decay of the faculties.
In the School-Room|John S. Hart
The old Commedia dell' Arte, as we have seen, had sunk into decrepitude.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first|Count Carlo Gozzi
In passing from your threshold, I leave the curse, due to decrepitude, behind me.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864|Various

His body feeble and emaciated, his mind stripped of its distinguishing faculties, he rapidly sunk into decrepitude.
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus|William MacGillivray
He seemed an image of decrepitude, a symbol of approaching death.
All Men are Ghosts|L. P. Jacks