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noun
Dotage  n.  
1.
Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. "Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature."
2.
Foolish utterance; drivel. "The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca."
3.
Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. "The dotage of the nation on presbytery."





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"Dotage" Quotes from Famous Books



... Maggie. I'm not quite in my dotage yet. I guess I'm still able to fetch downstairs a book and a bundle of papers." With his thumping cane a resolute emphasis to every other step, the old man hobbled into ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... smirking, smiling, twitching his faded lips, and making vague sounds, lying there asleep in his dotage. ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... his early youth were more than ever dissatisfied, and in their letters among themselves dealt forth harder and still harder words upon poor Sir Joseph. What terrible things might he not be expected to do now that his dotage was coming on? Those three married ladies had no selfish fears—so at least they declared, but they united in imploring their brother to look after his interests at Orley Farm. How dreadfully would the young heir ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... was ever so delighted to go into breeches, as I was this morning to get on a pair of cloth shoes as big as Jack Harris's: this joy may be the spirits of dotage-but what signifies whence one is happy? Observe, too, that this is written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually upon it, which has no distinction of fingers: so I no longer see any miracle in Buckinger, who was famous for writing ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... donkey-journalism of the period which brays down everything that is not like itself—mere froth and scum. And unlike our great classic teachers who held that old age was honourable and deserved the highest place in the senate, the present generation affects to consider a man well on the way to dotage after forty. God bless me!—what fools there are in this twentieth century!—what blatant idiots! Imagine national affairs carried on in the country by its young men! The Empire would soon became a mere football for general kicking! However, ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli


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