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demonstrating 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
- 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
- Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl;Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- Silvia gave her a doting smile.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- Mrs. Flagg would have welcomed the chance to dote on him for a few days.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- All animals like music—in a prison they dote on it.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 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
dotes = demonstrates love and uncritical affection
doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
doting = showing love and uncritical affection
dote = demonstrate love and uncritical affection
doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
dote = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
dote = love excessively
dote = show love
dote = show uncritical affection
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