Anility

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being anile; the old age of a woman; womanish dotage: as, “marks of anility,” Sterne, Sermons, xxi.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being anile.
  • Word Usage
    "This colossus of cunning and corruption had employed all his powers of mind, and all the resources of mimicry, to affect the surprise and anility of an innocent man, while giving the lawyers the spectacle of his sufferings."
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    senility  
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