Decrepitude vs Decrepit - What's the difference?
decrepitude | decrepit |
the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
* 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
* 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
Decrepitude is a derived term of decrepit.
As a noun decrepitude
is the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.As a adjective decrepit is
weakened or worn out from age or wear.decrepitude
English
Noun
- There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
- This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude ?