decrepity
English
Etymology
From Middle French décrépité, from Latin dēcrepitās.
Noun
decrepity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Decrepitude.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.28:
- being demanded what his studies would stead him in his decrepity, [he] answered; that he might the better, and with more ease leave this world.
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