Crossword clues for doting
doting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dote \Dote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doting.] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t?zen to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also doat.]
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To act foolishly. [Obs.]
He wol make him doten anon right.
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To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
--Dryden.He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
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To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote.
--Shak.What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. -- Pope.
Doting \Dot"ing\, a. That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n.
Wiktionary
Characterized by giving love and affection. n. Excessive fondness; reverence. v
(present participle of dote English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "doting".
It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.
If Cai had been less doting and more vigilant, perhaps he could have found help for him earlier on.
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.
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.
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.
Cyclone is telling Hiram that he thinks his threeyear-old daughter has inherited his wind powers, and Hiram beams and shakes his hand and congratulates the doting daddy and proposes a toast.
They were sent home by the confiscating officer, whose twilight child promptly filled in the open spaces with Crayola, so ingeniously managing to stay within the lines that the doting mother was convinced anew of her boy's creative potential and directed its education toward art.
I have known lively habits, the clamour of the wards, the dotings of twenty women.
It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.