dot|age

dot|age
dot|age «DOH tihj», noun.
1. a weak-minded and childish condition that sometimes accompanies old age; senility: »

The old man was in his dotage and spent much of his time mumbling to himself.

2. a) excessive love or fondness; foolish affection: »

Merlin fell in a dotage on the damsel (Sir Thomas Malory).

b) the object of such a love or fondness: »

those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women (Robert Burton).

[< dote + -age]

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