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Created page with "==English== ===Etymology=== From [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/senectus Latin ''senectus''] ("aged, old age"), [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/senex ''senex''] ("old"). Compare [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/senescent ''senescent'']. ===Noun=== '''senectitude''' (uncountable) # old age #: ''Synonyms:'' [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agedness agedness], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elderliness elderliness], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oldness oldness] #*..."
 
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'''senectitude''' (uncountable)
'''senectitude''' (uncountable)


# [[old age]]
# [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/old_age old age]
#: ''Synonyms:'' [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agedness agedness], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elderliness elderliness], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oldness oldness]
#: ''Synonyms:'' [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agedness agedness], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elderliness elderliness], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oldness oldness]
#* '''1857''', [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Miller Hugh Miller], ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruise_of_the_Betsey The Cruise of the Betsey, Or, a Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides]'':
#*: Three-and-twenty years form a large portion of the short life of man,—one-third as nearly as can be expressed in unbroken numbers, of the entire term fixed by the psalmist, and full one-half, if we strike off the twilight of childhood and immature youth, and of '''senectitude''' weary of its toils.


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