caducity
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Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a new building three stories high, and it was already falling to pieces, owing to work which must have been exceptionally dishonest to give so swiftly the effect of caducity.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
Don't believe that I am either begging praise by the stale artifice of hoping to be contradicted; or that I think there is any occasion to make you discover my caducity.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
Don't believe that I am either begging praise by the stale artifice of' hoping to be contradicted; or that I think there is any occasion to make you discover my caducity.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
I do not speak of the ordinary caducity of language, in virtue of which every effusion of the human spirit is lodged in a body of death.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
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