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Meanings of second childhood 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 "dotage"
        1
        The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage.
        The Blind Spot
        2
        We are not born in the dotage and decay of the world.
        Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
        3
        He shook his head in mock melancholy over his supposed intellectual dotage.
        The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale
        4
        Although not exactly in his dotage, his aggressiveness was becoming very childish.
        The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
        5
        He is, as you say, a senile old man in his dotage.
        A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Dau...
        1
        Nasin's more open displays of senility had a way of causing that.
        Knife of dreams
        2
        She had again dropped into the low uncertain voice of aimless senility.
        The Best British Short Stories of 1922
        3
        Longevity, and the abolition of senility, were also sought, and partially attained.
        Last and First Men
        4
        They rolled over one another, their faces contorted with a miniature senility.
        Erik Dorn
        5
        She doesn't sound like herself-didthe car accident knock her into senility?
        Within arm's reach
        Usage of second childhood in English
        1
        The old Professor had such slops as suggested a sickening second childhood.
        The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
        2
        Towards the close of his life Chateaubriand was almost in his second childhood.
        The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
        3
        And, whatever you think, I am not in my second childhood.'
        Wolf hall
        4
        Old age is a second childhood in which earliest memories revive.
        Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
        5
        The firm, vigorous intellect had overripened into the mental mellowness of second childhood.
        The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
        6
        I'm talking to myself as though I'd reached my second childhood.
        Tom of the Raiders
        7
        He's getting old, and he's come along into his second childhood.
        The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
        8
        That makes you nearly forty, and that's next door to second childhood, Man!
        Alias the Lone Wolf
        9
        There would be no second childhood, only the innocence and elasticity of the first.
        As We Go
        10
        Perhaps you believe me to be in my second childhood.
        Seven Icelandic Short Stories
        11
        Besides he is almost in his second childhood, and his wife not much better.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 05
        12
        We shall not consider that degree of old age which is called second childhood.
        Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Stu...
        13
        The master was cracked; he was in his second childhood!
        Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
        14
        One might believe they invented the term second childhood.
        Getting old is tres dangereux
        15
        Suppose we call it the gift of second childhood.
        The Romance of an Old Fool
        16
        As I approach a second childhood, I endeavour to enter into the pleasures of it.
        Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
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