doting
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doting
- /ˈdəʊtɪŋ/
Rhymes with -əʊtɪŋ
Where it comes from
From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
verb doating
- present participle and gerund of dote
adjective more doting · most doting · doating
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Characterized by giving love and affection.
doting parents
Similar: fond
- Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.
noun dotings · doating
- Excessive fondness; reverence. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
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