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dotagedo‧tage /ˈdəʊtɪdʒ $ ˈdoʊ-/ noun   dotageOrigin: 1300-1400 dote ‘to show the mental weakness of old age’ (13-19 centuries) - Thurmond is as mean in his dotage as he was in his younger days.
- And don't sign him into his dotage and whine about his getting old later.
- For while Hare was playing out his dotage, the backroom was at work.
- Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
- It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood.
- We all need to work at forgiveness and acceptance right into our dotage.
the time when someone is old► old age the time in someone's life when they are old: · She's a little forgetful, but that comes with old age.· the problems of old agein old age British: · By now, both were in extreme old age. ► dotage the time in someone's life when they are old, especially when their mind becomes weak - used especially in written English: in your dotage: · Thurmond is as mean in his dotage as he was in his younger days. ► in your dotage- Thurmond is as mean in his dotage as he was in his younger days.
- Appearance and character Many portraits of Wordsworth and Coleridge exist, though unfortunately Dorothy was only painted in her dotage.
- What Lord Denning's Spectator interview in his dotage had revealed was unguarded language.
in your dotage in your old age |