marcescent

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"How often is the flower of human life marcescent, tenacious of its old estate when the blooming-time is past."
"“But,” she answered, “granting that Mon Cul is a remarkable creature, that he is the elder statesman among monkeys, that his marcescent eyelids have opened upon sights and splendors about which the most romantic among us only dream,[…]”"

From Latin marcescens, present participle of marcescere.

immarcescible

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