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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

... favourite of Fortune stood then at the summit of his career, having by a brilliant assault taken the city for England, while a letter whose seal he had just broken assured him of the doting infatuation ...

— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney

... I have, or ever had. I speak of that country which first impressed upon the world a general and enduring form of masculine virtue; the land of liberty, and law, and eloquence, and military genius, now garrisoned by monks, and governed by a doting priest." ...

— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli

... it as though he would have pulled his head from his shoulders, saying unto him, "Thou knowest, Faustus, that thou hast given thyself, body and soul, to my lord Lucifer, and thou hast vowed thyself an enemy to God and to all men; and now thou beginnest to hearken to an old doting fool, which persuadeth thee as it were to good, when indeed it is too late, for thou art the devil's, and he hath great power presently to fetch thee. Wherefore he hath sent me unto thee to tell thee, that seeing thou hast sorrowed for that which thou ...

— Mediaeval Tales • Various

... no money, for they had a fine scoop all to their little selves, while the other papers gnashed their teeth and looked on. Nor was the whole truth told by a long way, but a garbled version about foreign coves who worked the business and bolted, and a doting father who never consented to it—and such a hash-up and hocus-pocus as would have ...

— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton

... we can only promise you a smattering—really no more for the money." "It must start me," said Sanchia, and began. There was a month more to run when Ingram found her, and, glad as she was of him, doting and doted upon, in the first flood of youth and love, she persisted in it, finished it out, and got her diploma for what it was worth, before, as he put it, she would ...

— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett

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