All 7 Uses of
doting
in
David Copperfield
- He doted on her boy — tenderly doted on him!†
Chpt 13-15 *doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
- He doted on her boy — tenderly doted on him!†
Chpt 13-15
- I am not at all polite, now, to the Misses Nettingalls' young ladies, and shouldn't dote on any of them, if they were twice as many and twenty times as beautiful.†
Chpt 16-18dote = demonstrate love and uncritical affection
- To be allowed to call her 'Dora', to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition — I am sure it was the summit of mine.†
Chpt 25-27
- Once she asked for a particular ballad, which she said her Ury (who was yawning in a great chair) doted on; and at intervals she looked round at him, and reported to Agnes that he was in raptures with the music.†
Chpt 37-39doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
- What could I do, but kiss away her tears, and tell her how I doted on her, after that!†
Chpt 40-42
- Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting — eh?'†
Chpt 28-30
Definitions:
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(1)
(doting) demonstrating love and uncritical affectionDoting may also imply that the doter tends to hover around the person they love to help attend to any needs.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, in classic literature you may encounter doting in reference to old age -- especially old age leading to diminished mental capacity.