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Meanings of dotage in English
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senilitat Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.
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Examples for "senility"
Examples for "senility"
1
Nasin's more open displays of senility had a way of causing that.
2
She had again dropped into the low uncertain voice of aimless senility.
3
Longevity, and the abolition of senility, were also sought, and partially attained.
4
They rolled over one another, their faces contorted with a miniature senility.
5
She doesn't sound like herself-didthe car accident knock her into senility?
1
The old Professor had such slops as suggested a sickening second childhood.
2
Towards the close of his life Chateaubriand was almost in his second childhood.
3
And, whatever you think, I am not in my second childhood.'
4
Old age is a second childhood in which earliest memories revive.
5
The firm, vigorous intellect had overripened into the mental mellowness of second childhood.
Usage of dotage in English
1
The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage.
2
We are not born in the dotage and decay of the world.
3
He shook his head in mock melancholy over his supposed intellectual dotage.
4
Although not exactly in his dotage, his aggressiveness was becoming very childish.
5
He is, as you say, a senile old man in his dotage.
6
You sometimes hear people say, 'Yes, but he was in his dotage.'
7
Aw, must I be y'r schoolmaster in the days of your dotage!
8
Were your master alive, he would say you were in your dotage!
9
Did he think-confound him!-didhe think that he had reached his dotage?
10
Kings in their dotage and princes in their nonage wooed her.
11
England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage.
12
There is no great loss in him, for he was in his dotage.
13
Even in the Memoirs of her father, there is no trace of dotage.
14
Forgive me, Josey, but I fear your father may be feeling his dotage.
15
He wasted his latter days in dotage, obscurity and universal neglect.
16
She is in her dotage, I dare say, and sees double.
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