Definition of Elderliness

1. Noun. The quality or state of being elderly ¹

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Definition of Elderliness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elderliness

elder abuse
elder hand
elder statesman
elderberries
elderberry
elderberry bush
elderberrying
eldercare
eldercares
elderdom
elderflower
elderflowers
elderhood
elderish
elderlies
elderliness (current term)
elderlinesses
elderly
eldern
elders
eldership
elderships
elderwed
elderweds
elderwort
eldest
eldest hand
eldfather
eldfathers
eldin

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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