dotage

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He was not aware that for two years old Jeremiah Brohl had been in his dotage, and that his debtors mocked him while devouring his substance.

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  1. noun A deterioration of mental faculties.

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  • What weakness to wish to live to such ghastly dotage, as to frighten the children, and make even the dogs to bark at us as we totter along the streets. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
  • So I have an ornery attitude—no more Mr. Nice Ogre—and I'm not getting mellow in my dotage, as those who tangle with me know. —  Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
  • People die of disease or dotage, and survivors get on with the game, insignificant as ever. —  California Literary Review
  • People who are relaxed and outgoing are much less likely to develop dementia in their dotage, according to a new study from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. —  National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
  • What terrible things might he not be expected to do now that his dotage was coming on? —  Orley Farm
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from doten, to dote.

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  1. from Middle English dotage; from dote + -age.
 

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/ˈdoʊtədʒ/
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