Veterascent

Quick meaning: Veterascent is an adjective meaning (obsolete, rare) Growing old.

Meaning

(obsolete, rare) Growing old.

Example Sentences

This Vestis animae (as Tertullian calls it,) our body, the clothing of our soules, is daily veterascent and mouldring away; notwithstanding all the art wee use to patch up our obsolete faces and withered carkasses.

[…] we have no palate at all to relish heavenly food, minding rather to patch up our decaying carcases, which are daily veterascent and mouldring away, then the taking hold of any opportunity that may lead us to partake and tast of those immortal joyes […]

This old, aged, elderly, decrepit, withered, shrunken, wizened, wrinkly, crabbed, shriveled, long-in–the-tooth, infirm, weak, debilitated, moth-eaten, doddery, tottery, grandevous, gerontic, badgerly, veterascent, senescent, doting, hoary, feeble, ravaged, wasting, superannuated mistress of mine […]

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