OLDNESS, noun
1. Old age; an advanced state of life or existence; as the oldness of a man, of an elephant or a tree.
2. The state of being old, or of a long continuance; as the oldness of a building or a garment.
3. Antiquity; as the oldness of monuments.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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