decreptitude

So sadly the penalty for vigour in youth is decreptitude in old age.

Nick Lane - 10 things I'd tell Darwin William Harryman 2009

I think a lot of people really were angry about the lack of direction in the city government, and about the increasing decreptitude of the city itself.

Daimnation!: Ottawa: Hope springs eternal/Klingon wins 2006

When a planet has attained to the age of advancing decreptitude, and the remnant of its water resides simply in its polar caps, they can only be effectively tapped for the benefit of the inhabitants when arctic and equatorial people are one.

The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920

They fell into decreptitude and decay; they died of suicidal corruption.

Empire Citizenship 1910

The empire was now in the last stages of decreptitude.

Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. Charles Morris 1877

She was desirous, by opposing it on many points, to take advantage of its decreptitude.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

Which, of course, if you believe Peter Daou, rose because it was enabled by the decreptitude of the Democratic establishment which was, of course the home of Peter Daou during his paid stints on the campaigns of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, neither of whom won.

Crooks and Liars murshedz 2011

It's back to being the centre of my office network, despite its age and relative decreptitude.

Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs 2010

Late bloomer to everything, including the decreptitude that comes with age.

communicatrix 2009

God designed the decreptitude of each person with increasing pain and / or disabilities of body and mind with increasing age, eventually ending in deaths that are often icky and awful and with little evidence of an afterlife.

dangerous idea 2009