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单词 caducity
释义 ca·du·ci·ty
\kəˈd(y)üsəd.ē\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: French caducité, from caduc falling, decrepit (from Latin caducus) + French -ité -ity
1. : perishableness, transitoriness
2.
 a. : feebleness from age : senility
 b. : old age
  < the housebound old man … in his peaceable caducity — Christopher Morley >
3. : lapse
 < the caducity of a legacy >
 < the caducity of a treaty may also be declared when … the causes which originated it have disappeared — Havana Convention on Treaties >
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