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

Let us deduct even from old age the years of infancy, the years of caducity, and the years of sleep,—alas! what remaineth of our many and our energetic days?

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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 Walpole, Horace

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 Walpole, Horace

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 Pattison, Mark