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  • adjective Not senile.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ senile

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Examples

  • Ears and eyes alert, he gazed silently around the assembly until he was satisfied that he had everyone's attention-or at least that of the nonsenile.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Ears and eyes alert, he gazed silently around the assembly until he was satisfied that he had everyone's attention-or at least that of the nonsenile.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • At length the buffeting of the wind had caused an old man with a crooked nose set on a hairy, faun-like face to stumble over one of the woman's feet; whereupon he had halted, thrown up his head with nonsenile vigour, and exclaimed:

    Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

  • At length the buffeting of the wind had caused an old man with a crooked nose set on a hairy, faun-like face to stumble over one of the woman’s feet; whereupon he had halted, thrown up his head with nonsenile vigour, and exclaimed:

    Through Russia 2003

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