Dotardly

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a dotard; foolish and weak.

    "To direct our Adoration toward a supernatural and unimitable Transplendency of the Divine Presence, or to any visible corporeall nature that is hypostatically united with the Divinity, most assuredly is not that sunk and sottish, that dull and dotardly sin of Idolatry."

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"To direct our Adoration toward a supernatural and unimitable Transplendency of the Divine Presence, or to any visible corporeall nature that is hypostatically united with the Divinity, most assuredly is not that sunk and sottish, that dull and dotardly sin of Idolatry."

Etymology

From dotard + -ly.

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