All 5 Uses of
doting
in
Middlemarch
- She doted on her eldest son and her youngest girl (a child of six), whom others thought her two naughtiest children.†
Chpt 2 *doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
- The notion of murder was absurd: no motive was discoverable, the young couple being understood to dote on each other; and it was not unprecedented that an accidental slip of the foot should have brought these grave consequences.†
Chpt 2dote = demonstrate love and uncritical affection
- Poor mamma indeed was an object to touch any creature born of woman; and Mr. Vincy, who doted on his wife, was more alarmed on her account than on Fred's.†
Chpt 3doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
- "Very well, Doctor Grave-face," said Rosy, dimpling, "I will declare in future that I dote on skeletons, and body-snatchers, and bits of things in phials, and quarrels with everybody, that end in your dying miserably."†
Chpt 5dote = demonstrate love and uncritical affection
- As to Captain Lydgate himself, his low brow, his aquiline nose bent on one side, and his rather heavy utterance, might have been disadvantageous in any young gentleman who had not a military bearing and mustache to give him what is doted on by some flower-like blond heads as "style."†
Chpt 6doted = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
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.