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Definition

demonstrating love and uncritical affection

In 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.

dotes = demonstrates love and uncritical affection

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
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

doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection

Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl;
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection

Silvia gave her a doting smile.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection

doting = showing love and uncritical affection

Mrs. Flagg would have welcomed the chance to dote on him for a few days.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793

dote = demonstrate love and uncritical affection

A minute later, Lev sits in the nurse's office, with the nurse doting on him like he's got a fever.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection

The men and women dressed in their hats and fancy clothes smiled and chuckled at what must have looked like a doting father and two privileged children.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection

As cultural ecologist Paul Shepard has observed, "The nomadic Bedouin does not dote on scenery, paint landscapes, or compile a nonutilitarian natural history...."
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

dote = demonstrated love and uncritical affection

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

dote = love excessively

She dote on Henrietta.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

dote = show love

All animals like music—in a prison they dote on it.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

dote = show uncritical affection

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
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

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