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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



... is it. 'Tis the fuero of the carnival, and dates from the time that Mother Church first fell into her dotage." ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... their youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad ...
— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift
... said Mr. Mumbray, in a confidential ear, "that if it weren't for the look of the thing, I would withhold my vote altogether! W.-B. is in his dotage. And to think that we might have put new ...
— Denzil Quarrier • George Gissing
... man was planting at fourscore. Three striplings, who their satchels wore, 'In building,' cried, 'the sense were more; But then to plant young trees at that age! The man is surely in his dotage. Pray, in the name of common sense, What fruit can he expect to gather Of all this labour and expense? Why, he must live like Lamech's father! What use for thee, grey-headed man, To load the remnant of thy span With care for days that never can be thine? Thyself to thought of ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... melancholy. I do dare my fate To do its worst. Now to my sister's lodging And sum up all these horrors: the disgrace The prince threw on me; next the piteous sight Of my dead brother; and my mother's dotage; And last this terrible vision: all these Shall with Vittoria's bounty turn to good, Or I will drown this ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury


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