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Meanings of second childhood in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dotage"
Examples for "dotage"
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.
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?
Usage of second childhood in English
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.
6
I'm talking to myself as though I'd reached my second childhood.
7
He's getting old, and he's come along into his second childhood.
8
That makes you nearly forty, and that's next door to second childhood, Man!
9
There would be no second childhood, only the innocence and elasticity of the first.
10
Perhaps you believe me to be in my second childhood.
11
Besides he is almost in his second childhood, and his wife not much better.
12
We shall not consider that degree of old age which is called second childhood.
13
The master was cracked; he was in his second childhood!
14
One might believe they invented the term second childhood.
15
Suppose we call it the gift of second childhood.
16
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavour to enter into the pleasures of it.
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Second childhood through the time
Second childhood across language varieties
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