decrepitude
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Decrepitude hasn’t had a chance to catch up to him.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2013
Decrepitude is particularly an occupational hazard of autocrats and leaders of authoritarian regimes.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I think he’s finally catching up to my mother. He’s just begun to feel the sadness of growing old, if that’s what it is. Decrepitude, obsolescence. There’s no good cure.”
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
One would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light from the night.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Both have the same epochs—infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, old age—and therefore European progress exhibits five phases, designated as Credulity, Inquiry, Faith, Reason, Decrepitude.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
Vocabulary lists containing decrepitude
Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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The Namesake
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"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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