This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them.
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Oldness
/ˈəʊldnəs/
Synonyms for "oldness" (52 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Adjective(1 words)
ancient times
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atavismcaducitydebilitydecline of lifedeclining yearsdecrepitudedotageeldelderlinessfeeblenessgreen old agehale old age
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Noun(5 words)
hoary ageinfirm old ageinfirmityinfirmity of ageinveteracylongevityold agepensionable ageprimogeniturericketinessripe old agesecond childhoodsenectitudesenilitysenior citizenshipsenioritysuperannuationthe downward slopethe golden yearsvale of years
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white hairs
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4 total sentences available.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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1795, Testimony at the trial of Sarah Sims for grand larceny at the Old Bailey, London, 20 May, 1795, I know it to be the property that the child wore at the time that I missed her, by the oldness of it, and the mending of it. I have not the least doubt about it.
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[…] once away from the familiar implications of home, they were two men together. Ted was young only in his assumption of oldness, and the only realms, apparently, in which Babbitt had a larger and more grown-up knowledge than Ted’s were the details of real estate and the phrases of politics.
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