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Definition of Oldening
1. olden [v] - See also: olden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oldening
Literary usage of Oldening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... delicious half-languors, while, by their gorgeousness of autumn foliage, and
their relation to the oldening year, they are made quite unlike in spirit. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"... and he remarked farther, and with alarm, a growing sadness upon her face, a
stooping in her figure, and a general oldening. The work that she was best ..."
3. A Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis: Or, The Quantitative by Francis Sutton (1904)
"... acetate lias Invii added by oldening the change of colour from pure red into
pale bluish-red which then takes place. After the precipitate has settled, ..."
4. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet (1863)
"Seeing how fast these oldsters keep on oldening; how in one age we fall from the
wise monk St. Benedict down to the pedantic Benedict of Aniane;* we feel ..."
5. The New Golden Age and Influence of the Precious Metals Upon the World by Robert Hogarth Patterson (1882)
"... but a new home for the growing population of Europe, and where European
civilisation, when oldening and ossifying, might take new birth, in the fresher ..."
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