Both Uses
senile
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(senile) weakness from old age (especially mental weakness); or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)