Read full poem →dotard in your rage ?
Eyes that lured a doting boyhood well might fool
Dictionary Entry
(usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
In a Sentence
“Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
mother dotingfather dotingparents dotingold dotinghusband dotingparent dotingdoting old
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Poetry examples for “doting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →That, tottering on the public way,
Die out in doting, dim decay,
Is it to you when all is past
Read full poem →One whom I loved and love to-day
As never fond and doting mother
Adored the babe who found its way
Read full poem →As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;
For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart
Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
Read full poem →And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,