Meanings
comparative more doting · superlative most doting · alternative obsolete doating
- Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.
plural dotings · alternative obsolete doating
- Excessive fondness; reverence.
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.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCharacterized by giving love and affection.
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Origin
- Middle Englishdotynge
- Englishdoting
From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
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