Today's Word "dotage"
Published in Vocabulary
dotage \DOH-tij\ (noun) - Feebleness of mind due to old age; senility.
"Jess, you told me you would never wear that particular bonnet unless you were in your dotage or wished to bewitch the man of your dreams..." -- Elizabeth Thornton, 'Bluestocking Bride'
Dotage comes from the verb to dote, meaning "to be weak-minded, silly, or foolish; to have the intellect impaired, especially by old age," from Middle English doten. A person who's in their dotage is a dotard.
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