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- verb Present participle of
olden .
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Examples
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The effect of the Super 8 is to give present moments historical weight by making them look primitive; it's a kind of instant oldening that seems to pause time if not to stop it.
'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale Joe Morgenstern 2012
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There are days in October that come nearer; but these differ by their delicious half-languors, while, by their gorgeousness of autumn foliage, and their relation to the oldening year, they are made quite unlike in spirit.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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Sarcey wrote that, having attained her sixteenth year, there she made the long-stop, never oldening with others.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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