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senile
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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- Lydia's nodding was the most detectable manifestation of how her senility was in advance of my grandmother's senility—or so my grandmother had observed, privately, to me.†
p. 194.3 *senility = mental weakness caused by old age
- Lydia's nodding was the most detectable manifestation of how her senility was in advance of my grandmother's senility—or so my grandmother had observed, privately, to me.†
p. 194.3
- Grandmother was extremely—almost clinically—interested in Lydia's senility, because she took Lydia's behavior as a barometer regarding what she could soon expect of herself.†
p. 194.3
- Lydia said; this was a pet phrase of my grandmother's, and Grandmother eyed Lydia as if this thievery of her favorite language were another manifestation of Lydia's senility being in advance of her own.†
p. 195.4
- This was a further indication to my grandmother that Lydia's senility was in advance of her own.†
p. 207.2
- Germaine was superstitious and probably heard screaming, of one kind or another, every night; and Lydia—it was now clearly proven—was suffering from a senility much in advance of my grandmother's.†
p. 253.9
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)