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/dˈoʊtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Dote v. i. (past & past part. doted; pres. part. doting) (Written also doat)

To act foolishly. (Obs.) "He wol make him doten anon right."

To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. "Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell." "He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died."

To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. "Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote." "What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love."

adjective

Doting adj. That dotes; silly; excessively fond.

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Etymology of 'Doting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Doting" Quotes from Famous Books

... horse and a saddle and a bridle and a habit; and later on I found that these things did not grow on the bushes in our neighborhood. I drew a line at these things, however, and decided that they should not swell the farm account. Thus I keep from the reader's eye some of the foolishness of a doting parent who has always been as warm wax in the hands of his, ...

— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter

... an effeminate-looking boy, tall and slender, with a face entirely destitute of color such as would indicate abounding spirits and good health; but it was no wonder, everyone knew how he was being made such a "sissy" of by his doting "mamma." ...

— The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path • Donald Ferguson

... do I hear of poison; which sweet means Must make me a brave frolic widower? It seems the doting fool, being forlorn, Hath got some compound mixture in despair, To end his desperate fortunes and his life; I'll get it from him, and with this make way To my wife's night and to ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... the green haunts Of Sherwood, nigh which place they have ta'en a house In the town of Nottingham, and pass for foreigners, Wearing the dress of Frenchmen.— All which I have perus'd with so attent And child-like longings, that to my doting ears Two sounds now seem like one, One meaning in two words, Sherwood and Liberty. And, gentle Mr. Sandford, 'Tis you that must provide now The means of my departure, which for safety Must be in ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... in twos and threes and Marjorie was kept busy greeting them. True to her prediction, it was after eight o'clock when Mignon appeared. She wore an imported gown of peachblow satin that must have been a considerable item of expense to her doting father. Her elfish face glowed with suppressed excitement and her black eyes roved about, with lightning glances, born of a curiosity to inspect every ...

— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester

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