doating

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A form of doat

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundobsoleteparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of doat; doting

    "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.

    1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
noundoating (plural doatings)

plural doatings

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of doting.

    […] infinite love, and grace, and condescension, and fatherly yearnings, and conjugal doatings […]

    1865, The Sunday Magazine, page 98

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