dote
verb (used without object)
to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually followed by on orupon ).
doter
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a word derived from
dote.
Example Sentences
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Where is the collector of Lawrence Welk records, the doter on Allen Drury novels?
From Time Magazine Archive
He is no recluse, no solitary student, no dreamer about the past, no doter upon the dead and gone, no projector of the visionary.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman
The man who's neither cynic brute, Nor phrase-led sycophantic doter, May echo that.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
The handsomest of them all is the "ranger," as the young doter is called.
From Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace
The Pope," writes Cardinal Newman, "is no recluse, no solitary student, no dreamer about the past, no doter upon the dead and gone, no projector of the visionary.
From The Purpose of the Papacy by John S. (John Stephen) Vaughan
