decrepitude
[dih-krep-i-tood, -tyood]
- decrepit condition; dilapidated state; feebleness, especially from old age.
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Origin of decrepitude
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Examples from the Web for decrepitude
Contemporary Examples
Face it, we like our blues singers to show some signs of decrepitude.
Historical Examples
Even the infirmities and the decrepitude that afflicted could not deliver him.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon
Every one who lived to decrepitude knew that he must expect it.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
The Arab, old as he may have been, showed no signs either of stiffness or decrepitude.
The Boy SlavesMayne Reid
The wit of the early volumes of Punch is in the last stages of decrepitude.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical StudyJulius West
There was, in fact, no evidence of decrepitude anywhere about him.
Heart of the Blue RidgeWaldron Baily
Word Origin and History for decrepitude
n.
c.1600, from French décrépitude (14c.), from Latin decrepitus (see decrepit).
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