doat
Britishverb
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“Here then is a Corsair-song. Know that I doat on Corsairs; and for that reason, sing it con spirito.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
“Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!” cried the fervent Abbot.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
“Better than she ever used to do?—You see how my father and Mrs. Weston doat upon her.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
How distant oft the thing we doat on most, From that for which we doat, felicity!
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
Eveline had soon become familiarised with him, and the young man seemed even more than the father to doat on her.
From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. by Ludwig Tieck
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