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Middle English
Etymology
From old + -nesse.
Noun
oldenes
- oldness
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII (in Middle English):So that I may reste bitwene thyn armes
for thow arte a clene vyrgyn aboue all knyghtes as the floure of the lyly
in whome vyrgynyte is sygnefyed
and thou arte the rose the whiche is the floure of al good vertu
& in coloure of fyre
For the fyre of the holy ghoost is take so in the
that my flesshe which was al dede of oldenes
is become yonge ageyne- (please add an English translation of this quotation)