The opposite of youngness.
The quality of being old; the opposite of newness.
1 Absolutely nothing on your person gives offense, either in newness or oldness .
2 Old, yes - but oldness is an essential part of the loveliness of houses.
3 Principally in the newness of the one, and the oldness of the other.
4 In this connection, many of the ex-slaves seem to be sensitive concerning oldness .
5 There was a newness and an oldness oddly combining themselves into one impression.
6 Volney's ruins of modern date - new oldness - fresh decay-dilapidation to begin with!
7 He's all ventilated with oldness and rectitude and decay.
8 Now, no matter which room I looked into, there was nothing but oldness and silence.
9 The younger man looked old with the oldness that comes not of time but of suffering.
10 The sense of the oldness of the Cathedral vanished away under the influence of this truly venerable presence.
11 It brought out the lovingness of his eyes, and took away the hard oldness of his finely cut features.
12 Yet even with her oldness and tiredness and metal curlers she had the look of race which attracted Murray.
13 After 130 years -hell, after a hundred years -one begins to think seriously about one's brand spanking new oldness .
14 Not that one can compare its ruined grandeur with well-preserved Winchester, the comparison lies in the oldness and the early beginnings of religion.
15 Inside a low stone building that smells of flagstone floors and oldness , we are sat in an upholstered nook beside a coal fire.
16 For the fire of the Holy Ghost is taken so in thee that my flesh which was of dead oldness is become young again.
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