Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrepitudes
Literary usage of Decrepitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"... establishment of a government in Roumania virtually independent of the Porte,
at the revolt in Can- dia, and the general and growing decrepitudes of the ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1853)
"... and with that freshness and force which the barbarians squandered amid the
decrepitudes of Roman civilization from the depths of their forests. ..."
3. The Prose of Edward Rowland Sill: With an Introduction Comprising Some by Edward Rowland Sill (1900)
"If I were a Professor of Literature, I should desire to hang my lecture-room with
pictures, — not of the old traditional and forbidding decrepitudes, ..."
4. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham, Dugald Stewart (1831)
"The mental vigour in those, who are experiencing the decrepitudes of age, is in
most coses evidently impaired. The • Count Segur'a Russian Expedition, ..."
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