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  • A minute later, Lev sits in the nurse's office, with the nurse doting on him like he's got a fever.  (source)
    doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
  • He went home, fell irretrievably in love with a navy captain's daughter, married her, and became a doting father to two little girls.  (source)
  • As cultural ecologist Paul Shepard has observed, "The nomadic Bedouin does not dote on scenery, paint landscapes, or compile a nonutilitarian natural history…."  (source)
    dote = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
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  • Silvia gave her a doting smile.  (source)
    doting = showing love and uncritical affection
  • Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl;  (source)
    doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
  • Mrs. Flagg would have welcomed the chance to dote on him for a few days.  (source)
    dote = demonstrate love and uncritical affection
  • Cap dotes on 'em, and ever since my Scout ran off last summer I've only had the one dog.†  (source)
    dotes = demonstrates love and uncritical affection
  • I'll set him up in a shop; or order my portrait of him, you know; or speak to my cousin, the Bishop and I'll doter Becky, and we'll have a wedding, Briggs, and you shall make the breakfast, and be a bridesmaid.†  (source)
    doter = someone who demonstrates love and uncritical affection
  • Indeed thou dotest and art not fit to govern a flock of sheep!†  (source)
    dotest = demonstrate love and uncritical affection
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou dotest" in older English, today we say "You dote."
  • if in black my lady's brows be deck'd, It mourns that painting and usurping hair Should ravish doters with a false aspect; And therefore is she born to make black fair.†  (source)
  • The Moon shines fair; you may away by night: I'll in and haste the writer, and withal Break with your wives of your departure hence: I am afraid my daughter will run mad, So much she doteth on her Mortimer.†  (source)
    doteth = demonstrates love and uncritical affection
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She doteth" in older English, today we say "She dotes."
  • 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.†  (source)
  • My dad too had been wildly squeamish around pregnant women (had in fact been fired from a job for one too many ill-advised remarks; those breeder cracks hadn't gone over too well at the office) and, far from the conventional "melting into goo" wisdom, he'd never been able to stand kids or babies either, much less the whole doting-parent scene, dumbly-smiling women feeling up their own bellies and guys with infants bound to their chests, would go outside to smoke or else skulk darkly at the margins looking like a drug pusher whenever he was forced to attend any sort of school event or kiddie party.†  (source)
    doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
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