Meaning of Dotage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
   countable, uncountable
2. Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
   countable, uncountable
3. Foolish utterance(s); drivel.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“"More care!" said the old man in a shrill voice, […] there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.”

“Claudio And ſhe is exceeding wiſe. Prince In euery thing but in louing Benedicke. […] I would ſhee had beſtowed this dotage on mee, […]”

“No leſs are they out of the way in Philoſophy, peſtring their heads with the ſapleſs dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.”

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