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oldness|ˈəʊldnɪs|
[-ness.]
The quality, fact, or condition of being old: in any sense of the adj.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 194 We awurpon þa deriᵹendlican ealdnysse. 1382Wyclif Josh. ix. 5 Olde shoon, the whiche to the doom of oldnes ben sowid with patchis. ― Ezek. xvi. 55 Thi sister Sodom and hir douȝtris shulen turne aȝen to her oldenes. ― Rom. vii. 6 That we serue in newenesse of spirit and not in oldnesse of lettre.1470–85Malory Arthur xvii. xviii, My flesshe which was al dede of oldenes is become yonge ageyne. 1540Coverdale Old Faith i. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 13 Concerning the antiquity or oldness of our christian faith. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countrie Farme 690 After foure yeares the wild Bore groweth leane through oldnesse of age. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 65 How shall I avert the scorn of those critics who laugh at the oldness of my topics? 1893J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ II. 267 Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Oldness and deadness are shaken off. |