caducity

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Their caducity should be recognized and abstergent measures should be taken to expunge them from the lexicon.

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  1. noun The frailty of old age; senility.
  2. noun The quality or state of being perishable; impermanence.

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  • Their caducity should be recognized and abstergent measures should be taken to expunge them from the lexicon. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • In fact coming into this style designed bathroom one wants to think about sense of life as well as caducity and eternity of all existing ... —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The attitude that words may be discarded -- indeed, that words have caducity at all -- is not salubriously abstergent, but reflects an agrestic nisus that all cultivated English speakers must eschew. —  A Gentleman's C
  • When you happen to see either Monsieur or Madame Perny, I beg you will give them this melancholic proof of my caducity, and tell them that the last time I went to see the boys, I carried the Michaelmas quarterage in my pocket; and when I was there I totally forgot it; but assure them, that I have not the least intention to bilk them, and will pay them faithfully the two quarters together, at Christmas. —  Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1766-71
  • Were I to conjecture, I should say that the whole will centre, before it is long, in Mr. Pitt and Co., the present being an heterogeneous jumble of youth and caducity, which cannot be efficient. —  Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1759-65
 

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  1. French caducité, from caduc, frail, falling, from Latin cadūcus; see caducous.

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  1. = French caducité, from Middle Latin caducita(t-)s, lapse, forfeiture, literally a falling, from Latin caducus, falling: see caducous.
 

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