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" (55 found)
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21 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- γῆρας noun (state of being old)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- پیرێتی noun (state of being old)
Esperanto
1 entries- maljuneco noun (state of being old)
Finnish
1 entries- vanhuus noun (state of being old)
French
1 entries- vieillesse noun (state of being old)
Galician
1 entries- vellez noun (state of being old)
German
1 entries- Alter noun (state of being old)
Icelandic
1 entries- elli noun (state of being old)
Ido
1 entries- oldeso noun (state of being old)
Irish
1 entries- aostacht noun (state of being old)
Italian
1 entries- vecchiaia noun (state of being old)
Latvian
2 entries- vecums noun (state of being old)
- vecība noun (state of being old)
Marathi
2 entries- जुनेपणा noun (state of being old)
- म्हातारपण noun (state of being old)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كبر noun (state of being old)
Polish
1 entries- starość noun (state of being old)
Portuguese
1 entries- velhice noun (state of being old)
Russian
1 entries- ста́рость noun (state of being old)
Spanish
1 entries- vejez noun (state of being old)
Turkish
1 entries- yaşlılık noun (state of being old)
Sample sentences
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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