___ on (be overly fond of)

Usage examples of dote.

If Cai had been less doting and more vigilant, perhaps he could have found help for him earlier on.

Her ascendancy over the King was attributed to the enchantments and experiments of a Dominican friar, learned in many a cantrip and cabala, whom she entertained in her house, and who had fashioned two pictures of Edward and Alive which, when suffumigated with the incense of mysterious herbs and gums, mandrakes, sweet calamus, caryophylleae, storax, benzoin, and other plants plucked beneath the full moon what time Venus was in ascendant, caused the old King to dote upon this lovely concubine.

In five months, Gid was able to pay back only one hundred dollars, and his doting aunt stopped doting.

Miss Mahan had certainly seen her share of blindly doting parents, but this was unbelievable.

But they are all so subtle, full of art-- And age again doting and flexible, So as--I cannot tell--we may, perchance, Light on a quean may cheat us all.

Fortunately, Taglia seemed to be the kind that doted on the Fluxgirlsfortunately for Taglia, Matson thought sourly.

He and Tika shuddered in horror as Doris was fed segments of a slithering pink object by her doting partner whilst protesting that they should report this to Txala.

Jane, their mother, would have been an unfashionably doting mother, even as she had been an unfashionably devoted wife.

Certainly Benison of all Kindred, with his notorious doting on Aunt Bedelia, would understand and acquiesce.

Grandfather Benjamin doted on his sons, and wanted them to learn the button business, but Adelia had loftier aims.

Then there were the Hoovers - the ivory-white Hoovers flushed with all the benefits of a doting society, the people of intelligence and position who slid through life plucking up the breaks as they dropped in their laps - who had nothing better to do with their lives than indulge their fantasies with harebrained schemes and crackpot notions and then feel they had the legal right to inflict their sick delusions on decent, law-abiding people.

Endymion, dazzled at the outset by Charis, had fallen violently in love with her, and was behaving, as even his doting parent was obliged to own, like a mooncalf, bestowing every degree of attention upon Charis, gazing adoringly at her, positively sitting in her pocket, and showing alarming signs of trying to fix his interest with her.

Hooper said, and in his doting, overattentive way he repeated that she was new to New York and was seeing this for the first time.

A pure-bred Pomeranian everyone hated except my mom, who really doted on the little turd.

Iza should have had many children, the old man thought, she dotes so much on the ones she has.