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v. Present participle of dote. Dote: To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child.

adj. Characterized by giving love and affection.

n. Excessive fondness; reverence.

adj. That dotes; silly; excessively fond.

Weak-minded; imbecile from old age.

Excessively fond.

Also spelled doating.

adj. extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent

"The thought of her honor, so carefully guarded, and so unhappily lost, was torture to her; but the worst was her fear that her lover had broken his word to her, which she did not believe he could ever have done unless he loved some fairer lady, and in doting fondness had suffered her to extort the secret from him."

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bloating    boating    coating    denoting    devoting    floating    gloating    misquoting    nonvoting    noting