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Word Meanings - DOTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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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. Macaulay. 2. Foolish utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton. 3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet.
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- IMBECILITY
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural - FEEBLENESS
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. - WEAKNESS
1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading - DOTAGE
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. - SENILITY
The quality or state of being senile; old age. - ANECDOTAGE
Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.