{"id":19830,"date":"2025-05-16T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19830"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:59:08","slug":"words-seldom-seen-dotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19830","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Dotage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dotage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noun: A state or period of old age especially when accompanied by mental decline.
Example: \u201cHis forgetfulness indicated that he was entering his dotage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pronounced <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dotage is a casual and less formal word for senility <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo of the very old deciduous tree was taken at the Naval Observatory in Greenwich UK and may have been planted by Admiral Nelson in the 1700s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dotage Noun: A state or period of old age especially when accompanied by mental decline. Example: \u201cHis forgetfulness indicated that he was entering his dotage.\u201d pronounced Dotage is a casual and less formal word for senility The photo of the very old deciduous tree was taken at the Naval Observatory in Greenwich UK and may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193,408],"tags":[1455,320,1154,409],"class_list":["post-19830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decline","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-dotage","tag-trees","tag-united-kingdom","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5049.jpg?fit=1200%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-59Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19831,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830\/revisions\/19831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}