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Definition
to demonstrate love and uncritical affectionIn classic literature, you may encounter doting in reference to old age — especially old age leading to diminished mental capacity.
- She has doting parents.
doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
- She dotes upon her children.
- She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it.Charles Dickens -- The Pickwick Papers
- Because thou seest me dote upon my love.Shakespeare -- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Marianne restored to life, health, friends, and to her doting mother, was an idea to fill her heart with sensations of exquisite comfort, and expand it in fervent gratitude;— but it lead to no outward demonstrations of joy, no words, no smiles.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- With all her splendid common sense and practical everyday ability, Roxy was a doting fool of a mother.Mark Twain -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
- All animals like music—in a prison they dote on it.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream - She dote on Henrietta.Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
- Every luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents.Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
- He went home, fell irretrievably in love with a navy captain's daughter, married her, and became a doting father to two little girls.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Lady Lysa doted on Marillion, and had banished two serving girls and even a page for telling lies about him.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- He reaches out with a foolish grin of doting affection and grabs his brother's hand.Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
- Smiling over cake like the doting granddaughter she really was.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- What do you mean To dote thus on such luggage?William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
- If I didn't know better, I'd suspect that he was a doting father come to call on his young daughter, not his future wife.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- The combined entourage checked in at the Waldorf, where politicians and military brass doted on them.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- His mind was very clear, not doting, but sad and old.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- What I need now is the antivirus, or an anti-dote.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- He dotes upon the children to the last and remembers the commission he has undertaken for an absent friend.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
dotes = demonstrates love and uncritical affection
dote = show uncritical affection
dote = love excessively
dote = show love