Noun
The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHappily virtue is natural in the people, [despite] aristocratical prejudices. A nation is truly corrupt, when, after having, by degrees lost its character and liberty, it slides from democracy into aristocracy or monarchy; this is the death of the political body by decrepitude.... Maximilien Robespierre
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant. William Butler Yeats
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. Jane Fonda
Speech after long silence it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead ... That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant. William Butler Yeats