dotage
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tɪdʒ noun
1.
a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
2.
excessive fondness; foolish affection.
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| —n | |
| 1. | feebleness of mind, esp as a result of old age |
| 2. | foolish infatuation |
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dotage dot·age (dō'tĭj)
n.
The loss of previously intact mental powers; senility. Also called anility.
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Example sentences
Most rely on teaching, day jobs or rich spouses in their dotage.
It would be sad injustice, the reader must understand, to represent all my excellent old friends as in their dotage.
But it is also a symptom of mild paranoia about whether these firms can in their dotage still deliver perky growth.
They didn't react in the same way to lionesses, so it wasn't that they were becoming generally more panicky in their dotage.
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