Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Decrepitude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Decrepitude.
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- noun
decrepitude .
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Examples
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He seems to have lost his touch since Day of the Dead, which I thought was fantastic and creepy and was very atmospheric as far as the macabre, decrepitness goes.
Red Band Trailer for George Romero's Survival of the Dead « FirstShowing.net 2010
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I was stunned to see blocks still filled with abandoned buildings; nothing changed since the hurricane, except a new state of decrepitness.
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The setting is unbelievable detailed with its decrepitness yet infused with a ragamuffin lifestyle of people getting by in the most unexpected ways.
Today in Fantasy: September 22, 2009 Jeff C 2009
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The setting is unbelievable detailed with its decrepitness yet infused with a ragamuffin lifestyle of people getting by in the most unexpected ways.
Archive 2009-09-01 Jeff C 2009
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The UNESCO World Heritage site of Pingyao was filled with beautiful temples and was remarkably real in its old-world charm, right down to a dusty decrepitness on most of its streets; I expected it to be more faux and touristy.
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I believe Milo's decrepitness and leglessness show the price he paid for the wheel.
Week 41: Look to the Goblet, Ralph Douglas Wolk 2007
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Not only because of her physical decrepitness, that
Time Was Perry, Steve 1998
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The example of the savages, most of whom have been found in this condition, seems to confirm that mankind was formed ever to remain in it, that this condition is the real youth of the world, and that all ulterior improvements have been so many steps, in appearance towards the perfection of individuals, but in fact towards the decrepitness of the species.
Second Part 1909
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The example of the savages, most of whom have been found in this condition, seems to confirm that mankind was formed ever to remain in it, that this condition is the real youth of the world, and that all ulterior improvements have been so many steps, in appearance towards the perfection of individuals, but in fact towards the decrepitness of the species.
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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Which also were altogether insupportable did not I pity its condition, in being present with it, and, as the poets 'gods were wont to assist such as were dying with some pleasant metamorphosis, help their decrepitness as much as in me lies by bringing them back to a second childhood, from whence they are not improperly called twice children.
The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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