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oldness

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈəʊldnəs/Part of speech nounSorted delnossStarts with OEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the quality of being old; the opposite of newness

Word origin

From Middle English oldnesse, from Old English ealdnes, ealdnyss (“oldness; age”), equivalent to old + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them.
  • But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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