dilapidation

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Dilapidations had to be made good; debts necessarily incurred left little room for generosity.

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

Dilapidations I refer to, yes—his lordship is exacting as to dilapidations.

From Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House by Hope, Anthony

The river Arrow, which rises in the Lickey Hills, runs through the parish, towards Dilapidations of time.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell

My Tenant's Advertisements of Ruins and Dilapidations often cast a Damp on my Spirits, even in the Instant when the Sun, in all his Splendor, gilds my Eastern Palaces.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

In 1859 he was appointed to the post of County Surveyor of Norfolk, and afterwards became one of the diocesan surveyors under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles