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Definition of Senectitude
1. n. Old age.
Definition of Senectitude
1. Noun. old age ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Senectitude
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Senectitude
Literary usage of Senectitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"... viz., senescence (from forty, or earlier for women) to the climacteric; and
senectitude, which is post-climacteric, or old age proper. ..."
2. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1892)
"Buchanan had neither reached the stage of extreme senectitude when the memory
does not reach back farther than a few weeks, nor did he give the least ground ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"eld (archaic and poetic), senectitude (rare); spec, date, immemori- alness (rare),
epact. again, adv. afresh, anew, anon (chiefly literary), freshly, newly; ..."
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