doting
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
Verb edit
doting
- present participle and gerund of dote
Adjective edit
doting (comparative more doting, superlative most doting)
- Characterized by giving love and affection.
- Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.
Noun edit
doting (plural dotings)
- Excessive fondness; reverence.
- 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:
- 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.