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//
Synonyms for "decrepitude" (42 found)
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15 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- грохналост noun (the state of being decrepit)
Catalan
1 entries- decrepitud noun (the state of being decrepit)
Dutch
1 entries- aftakeling noun (the state of being decrepit)
Esperanto
1 entries- kadukiĝo noun (the state of being decrepit)
French
1 entries- décrépitude noun (the state of being decrepit)
German
3 entries- Abnutzung noun (the state of being decrepit)
- Altersschwäche noun (the state of being decrepit)
- Verfall noun (the state of being decrepit)
Italian
2 entries- decrepitezza noun (the state of being decrepit)
- decrepità noun (the state of being decrepit)
Manx
1 entries- anheiltys noun (the state of being decrepit)
Old Norse
1 entries- ánasótt noun (the state of being decrepit)
Portuguese
1 entries- decrepitude noun (the state of being decrepit)
Russian
1 entries- дря́хлость noun (the state of being decrepit)
Spanish
1 entries- decrepitud noun (the state of being decrepit)
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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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