Both Uses of
senile
in
Main Street
- She cried again that their youth was senile and cruel on the day when she overheard Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock.†
Chpt 9 *
- She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled greatness when other empires have grown senile.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(senile) mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age