Dotage is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DOTAGE in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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.
• Foolish utterance; drivel.
• Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
NOUN:
• the state of senility
• the period of life in which a person is old and weak
• weakness as a result of old age
• mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a state of senility

Words related to DOTAGE

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Words that contain DOTAGE

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How to use DOTAGE in a sentence

• But as to a planet, as to our little earth, instead of arguing dotage, six thousand years may have scarcely carried her beyond babyhood.
• The large room was lit by two candles and a melancholy lamp, there was no tablecloth, the spoons were of pewter, with the bowls half gone, and the knives were in their dotage.
• To what excesses had his dotage run? But God, to save the father, took the son.
• He wrote to the Grand Duke in 1562, arguing that Buonarroti was in his dotage, and begging Cosimo to use his influence to obtain the place for himself.
• He must be getting into his dotage, he reflected, or else the idea of a five-million-dollar job had him rattled.
• Stoic and Epicurean philosophers alike upheld it as a lawful remedy against the pangs of disease, the dotage of old age, or the caprices of a tyrant.
• Indeed, for some time past, he might be said to hover between reason and dotage.
• I know his dotage on one face is as brief as it is deep.
• The king, sunk in extreme dotage, was entirely in the hands of his unscrupulous son.
• The further we walked the nobler appeared the last relic of the dotage of old feudal Servia.
• Felt was in his dotage, and I despaired of gaining any intelligence from him on which I could depend.
• I should have suspected Buffon of writing them on the death-bed of his detestable dotage.
• That, however, is always the case with fresh-water lakes in their last dotage, as American geologists have amply proved in the case of the Great Salt Lake of Utah.
• Joubert was in his dotage, and none of his people were aware of it until the crucial moment of the war was passed.
• I suppose the old gentleman was in his dotage, for he manifested in various ways the characteristics which mark this particular stage of life.
• What would those who love and honour me think if they saw their friend in this dotage and distraction? I reflect at such times on the great hurt our original sin has done us.
• The prudence of these worthy friends they term suspicion, and their experience dotage.
• The result proved that those who had thought him in his dotage, and only indulging its loquacity, were much mistaken.
• We are not born in the dotage and decay of the world.
• The brains, in the interim, considering this unnatural course, will fall into a raving dotage, and withhold all feeling from the sinews and motion from the muscles.
• He sent to the French Academy an invective that bears all the marks of passionate dotage.
• Dotage, or the mental imbecility produced by excessive old age, is also a disqualification for admission.
• For such follies, even in childhood, I had imbibed a taste, and now they came back to me as if in the dotage of grief.
• Polonius is a man bred in courts, exercised in business, stored with observations, confident of his knowledge, proud of his eloquence, and declining into dotage.

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