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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



... the civil weer, quhilk was to them as the English grammar is to us; and, as it seemes noe less then necessarie, nor our's is now. Manie kinges since that tyme have advanced letteres be erecting schooles, and doting revennues to their maintenance; but few have had the knaulege them selfes to mend, or be tuiched with, the defectes or faltes crept into the boueles of learning, among quhom JAMES the first, ane of your Majesties worthie progenitoures, houbeit repressed be the iniquitie of the tyme, deserved ...
— Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue - A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles • Alexander Hume

... 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 unworthy of her. And, in that hoodwinked humour, lives more like a suitor than a husband; ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... mortal care, Thou traveller beyond the grave; Thou soul of patience, airy food, Bold warrant of a distant good, Reviving cordial, kind decoy; Though fortune frowns and friends depart, Though Silvia flies me, flattering joy, Nor thou, nor love, shall leave my doting heart. ...
— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... population, than the fact that, at the present day, she is still a powerful and unexhausted country, and her children still, to a certain extent, a high-minded and great people. Yes, notwithstanding the misrule of the brutal and sensual Austrian, the doting Bourbon, and, above all, the spiritual tyranny of the court of Rome, Spain can still maintain her own, fight her own combat, and Spaniards are not yet fanatic slaves and crouching beggars. This is saying ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... crowded there in reeking filth. Yesterday, not long before this hour, he was humming verses of cow songs to Helen, and beguiling the way to the Forno with a recital of the customs and idyls of the hills. What a spiteful thing was Fate! Why had this doting peasant risen from the dead to drag him through the mire of a past transgression? If Stampa betrayed anger, if his eyes and voice showed the scorn and hatred of a man justly incensed because of his daughter's untimely death, the ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy


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