doting
Use Doting in a sentence
tɪŋ adjective
1.
excessively fond: doting parents.
2.
showing a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age; weak-minded; senile.
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verb (used without object) Also, doat.
1.
to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually followed by on or upon ): They dote on their youngest daughter.
2.
to show a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age.
noun
3.
decay of wood.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English doten to behave foolishly, become feeble-minded; cognate with Middle Dutch doten.
1175–1225; Middle English doten to behave foolishly, become feeble-minded; cognate with Middle Dutch doten.
Related forms
dot·er, noun
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| —vb (foll by on | |
| 1. | to love to an excessive or foolish degree |
| 2. | to be foolish or weak-minded, esp as a result of old age |
| [C13: related to Middle Dutch doten to be silly, Norwegian dudra to shake] | |
| doat or doat | |
| —vb | |
| [C13: related to Middle Dutch doten to be silly, Norwegian dudra to shake] | |
| 'doter or doat | |
| —n | |
| 'doater or doat | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
dote
c.1200, from M.L.G. doten "be foolish," of unknown origin. Dotage, lit. "the state of one who dotes," first recorded late 14c. for "senility." Related: Doted; dotes; doting.
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Example sentences
He was a devoted husband, loving father and doting grandfather.
Here come the holidays, when doting grandparents, aunts or uncles don't want to arrive empty-handed for family gatherings.
From her behavior alone, uniformly doting, you couldn't know which was which.
His own testimony clears up any error that may have made him appear to be a doting father.
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