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Definition of Elderliness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elderliness
Literary usage of Elderliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Sterility in Woman by James Matthews Duncan (1884)
"... that danger has been demonstrated to rise with increasing elderliness; but
elderliness of the mother is an essential element in a question of excessive ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"Now, in this Rede Lecture, he exhibits what may, perhaps, be a more difficult
courage still — that of his elderliness. He is over sixty, and was over forty ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"Then there are boys of real originality and special gifts for whom no opening
has been found, boys to whom, perhaps owing to some strain of elderliness or ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"Age ia only elderliness with me yet, Alice, my dear, though you open your pretty
eyes. Going down into the valley is easy. ..."
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