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Doting

adjective

Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent. Synonyms: adoring, fond. "Deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain" , "Hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"

Dote

verb

(past & past part. doted; pres. part. doting) (Written also doat)

Be foolish or senile due to old age.

Shower with love; show excessive affection for.

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... husbands are wont to unload their irritability on their wives, so Jean was inclined to favor Mlle. Fouchette. And as doting wives who voluntarily constitute themselves drudges soon become fixed in that lowly position, so Mlle. Fouchette naturally became the servant of the ...

— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray

... will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional.—Rebecca, if I appear not in these lists I lose fame and rank—lose that which is the breath of my nostrils, the esteem, I mean, in which ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... the young Methuselah must have been to his parents and to his doting ancestors; with what tender solicitude must the old folks have watched the child's progress from the innocence of his first to the virility of his later centuries. We can picture the happy reunions of the old Adam family under the domestic vines and fig-trees that bloomed near the Euphrates. ...

— The Holy Cross and Other Tales • Eugene Field

... the window. The match burnt slowly out in his fingers. Kate smiled mischievously. The astute young woman had detected the pitiable subterfuge. For what else did she stand at the head of her class, and had doting parents paid three ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... young men." "I do not think a young, timid girl Should 'No' so much," I answered. And going out (Carefully escorted by the butler, for there was A better overcoat than mine in the hall), I left her alone and unloved,—with no one to care for her Save a couple of dozen servants And a doting father ...

— When hearts are trumps • Thomas Winthrop Hall

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