All 9 Uses of
doting
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and inconstant man.†
Scene 1.1dotes = demonstrates love and uncritical affection
- Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and inconstant man.†
Scene 1.1
- Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and inconstant man.†
Scene 1.1
- LYSANDER Helena, adieu: As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!†
Scene 1.1dote = demonstrate 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.Scene 2.1 *dote = love excessively
- OBERON I wonder if Titania be awak'd; Then, what it was that next came in her eye, Which she must dote on in extremity.†
Scene 3.2dote = demonstrate love and uncritical affection
- how I dote on thee!†
Scene 4.1
- But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,—But by some power it is,—my love to Hermia, Melted as the snow—seems to me now As the remembrance of an idle gawd Which in my childhood I did dote upon: And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, The object and the pleasure of mine eye, Is only Helena.†
Scene 4.1
- And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities.†
Scene 1.1
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.