ancientness

By daylight some of the horror goes, but the impression of ancientness and desolation remains.

But, modern as they are, they have done what they could to put themselves in harmony with the ancientness all about.

The effect, in connection with the great panelled well of the staircase, is one of rich and goodly ancientness.

The real charm of Sussex lies in its ancientness and in its simple, good-humoured country folk, not in its modernness.

Those who bear title of the same rank take precedence of one another according to the ancientness of the title they bear.