doting

English

Verb

doting

  1. present participle of dote

Adjective

doting (comparative more doting, superlative most doting)

  1. Characterized by giving love and affection.

Noun

doting (plural dotings)

  1. Excessive fondness; reverence.
    • 1851 October 18, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in The Whale, 1st British edition, London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 14262177; Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 14 November 1851, OCLC 57395299:
      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.

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