doting
[doh-ting]
- excessively fond: doting parents.
- showing a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age; weak-minded; senile.
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Origin of doting
dote
[doht]
- to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually followed by on or upon): They dote on their youngest daughter.
- to show a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age.
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- decay of wood.
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Origin of dote
1175–1225; Middle English doten to behave foolishly, become feeble-minded; cognate with Middle Dutch doten.
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Examples from the Web for doting
Contemporary Examples
He is also said to have been a good father and now a doting grandfather.
There are the doting mother, wild brother, and distant father.
The Moscow regime is denying them a chance; a chance at an extraordinary life with doting parents in a wealthier country.
How Difficult Russian Adoptions Were, Even Before Vladimir Putin’s CrackdownLauren Ashburn
December 31, 2012
Even her husband, a gruff French surgeon who is more “Tiger Mom” than doting dad, thought the email was a bit curt.
Put another way, they are what every doting parent wants their precocious toddler to grow up to become.
Unlock Your Inner Psychopath: Kevin Dutton’s ‘The Wisdom of Psychopaths’Robert Herritt
October 19, 2012
Historical Examples
And how comes it she's so afraid of the soldiers, if she's doting?
Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II)Charles James Lever
Her hands were fumbling with the clothes of this doting rival.
Fantazius MallareBen Hecht
I was pleased to notice that her nudity did not this time appeal to my doting madness.
Fantazius MallareBen Hecht
The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
Familiar QuotationsJohn Bartlett
I was never able to tell my fond and doting mother that I, like her, had taken a prize.
Pussy and Doggy TalesEdith Nesbit
dote
now rarely doat
- (foll by on or upon) to love to an excessive or foolish degree
- to be foolish or weak-minded, esp as a result of old age
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Word Origin
C13: related to Middle Dutch doten to be silly, Norwegian dudra to shake
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Word Origin and History for doting
dote
v.
c.1200, "to be feeble-minded from age," from Middle Low German doten "be foolish," of unknown origin. Meaning "to be infatuated" is from late 15c. Related: Doted; dotes; doting.
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