Decrepitude vs Dilapidation - What's the difference?
decrepitude | dilapidation |
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
The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
(legal) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention.
(British, legal) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
As nouns the difference between decrepitude and dilapidation
is that decrepitude is decrepitude, decay while dilapidation is the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.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 ?