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Ageful (adj) means Old or elderly.

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Old or elderly.

"Of course, it also represents the courtesy of the old men of the country, with their eylids drooping into ageful insipidity and ageful sleep and their bodies leaning over the age-old sticks without which can they hardly stand." — Shiv Lal, editor, The Election Archives (1981)

"These women realise the role of technogenarian as they reconstruct their naturally ageing bodies with age-erasing technology, replacing undesired ageful faces and bodies with youthful ageless ones." — Abigail T. Brooks, Aesthetic Anti-ageing Surgery and Technology: Women’s Friend or Foe? (2011)

Lasting forever.

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