Senectitude: Difference between revisions

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From Latin senectus ("aged, old age"), senex ("old"). Compare senescent.

senectitude (uncountable)

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 '''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]
-#* '''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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