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Doting   /dˈoʊtɪŋ/   Listen
Doting

adjective
1.
Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent.  Synonyms: adoring, fond.  "Deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain" , "Hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"



Dote

verb
(past & past part. doted; pres. part. doting)  (Written also doat)
1.
Be foolish or senile due to old age.
2.
Shower with love; show excessive affection for.






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"Doting" Quotes from Famous Books



... doting citizen, who, it is thought, might be of the common-council for his wealth; a fellow sincerely besotted on his own wife, and so wrapt with a conceit of her perfections, that he simply holds himself ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... conduct of the doting old King of Bavaria, in his open liaison with a wandering actress who had assumed the name of Lola Montez (but who was in reality the eloped wife of an Englishman, and whom he had created a Bavarian Countess by the ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... Herbert remained at the Towers, whining, pleading, shamefully fawning upon a doting and ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch

... Bois-Guilbert, "I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional.—Rebecca, if I appear not in these lists I lose fame and rank—lose that which is the breath of my nostrils, the esteem, I mean, in which I am held by my brethren, and ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... to Jesus Christ are too much affected with their own graces, and too little taken with Christ's person; wherefore God, to take them off from doting upon their own jewels, and that they might look more to the person, undertaking, and merits of his Son, plunges them into the ditch by temptations. And this I take to be the meaning of Job, "If I wash myself," said he, "with snow-water, and make my hands never ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan


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