Agedness

Definitions

The state or quality of being aged.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England and the Causes that Hitherto Have⟳ Hindered It, Volume I, in Charles Symmons (ed.), The Prose Works of John Milton, London: J. Johnson (etc.), 1806, Volume I, pp. 21-22 (citing the 74th epistle of Cyprian), Neither ought custom to hinder that truth should not prevail; for custom without truth is but agedness of errour.”

“I cannot tell⟳ the half of the strange pleasures and thoughts that come⟳ about me at the sight of that old tower; for, in some sort⟳, it is the epitome of all that makes the Continent of Europe interesting, as opposed to new countries; and, above all, it completely expresses that agedness in the midst of active life which binds the old and the new into harmony.”

“Keda's oldness was the work⟳ of fate, alchemy. An occult agedness. A transparent darkness. A broken and mysterious grove. A tragedy, a glory, a decay.”

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