Agedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being aged. uncountable

    "1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England and the Causes that Hitherto Have Hindered It, Volume I, in Charles Symmons (ed.), The Prose Works of John Milton, London: J. Johnson (etc.), 1806, Volume I, pp. 21-22 (citing the 74th epistle of Cyprian), Neither ought custom to hinder that truth should not prevail; for custom without truth is but agedness of errour."

  2. 2
    the property characteristic of old age wordnet

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ancientnessdatednessdecrepitnesselderlinesselderlinesshoar

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"1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England and the Causes that Hitherto Have Hindered It, Volume I, in Charles Symmons (ed.), The Prose Works of John Milton, London: J. Johnson (etc.), 1806, Volume I, pp. 21-22 (citing the 74th epistle of Cyprian), Neither ought custom to hinder that truth should not prevail; for custom without truth is but agedness of errour."

Etymology

From Middle English agednes, agidnes, equivalent to aged + -ness.

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