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dotard

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dot·ard  (dtrd)
n.
A person who is in his or her dotage.

[Middle English, from doten, to dote.]

dotard
Noun
a person who is feeble-minded through old age
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Noun1.dotard - an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect


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In the first place he was sorry that Natasha, for whom he cared more than for anyone else in the family, should be lost to the home; and secondly, from his hussar point of view, he regretted not to have been there to show that fellow Bolkonski that connection with him was no such great honor after all, and that if he loved Natasha he might dispense with permission from his dotard father.
Bid the soldiers forward, and give the dotard the same choice that you give all his countrymen--to stand aside or be trampled on
Though the good people of the Parsonage never went to the Hall and shunned the horrid old dotard its owner, yet they kept a strict knowledge of all that happened there, and were looking out every day for the catastrophe for which Miss Horrocks was also eager.
 
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