Both Uses of
senile
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She cried again that their youth was senile and cruel on the day when she overheard Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock.†
Chpt 9 *senile = mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
- 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:
weakness from old age (especially mental weakness); or describing a medical condition as caused by old age