There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
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Decrepitude
/dəˈkɹɛpɪˌtuːd/
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9 entriesbone fragilitycivic declinecrumbling facadeethical erosioninstitutional decayjoint stiffnessloss of mobilitystructural disrepairwear and tear
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5 entriesadvanced decrepitudebodily decrepitudechronic decrepitudemoral decrepitudephysical decrepitude
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6 total sentences available.
This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude?
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Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.
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We were encircled by a ghostly decrepitude, roads that led to nowhere, canals holding pools of brilliant, stinking water, a few nat-haunted banyan trees, grotesque with old muscled trunks and bearded roots.
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