doting

UK/ˈdəʊtɪŋ/US/ˈdəʊtɪŋ/

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Doting means showing excessive fondness. A doting father, doting grandparents, doting on her.

The excess is built in, and the word is affectionate about it — a doting parent is indulgent rather than wrong. It takes on. Note dotage, meaning the feebleness of old age, which comes from the same verb; and that dote originally meant to be foolish or in your second childhood.

Definitions of doting

1adjectivedotingShowing excessive fondness.B2+
“Her doting grandfather bought her everything she asked for.”

doting is a quality of fondness.

Where it comes from

Dote plus -ing, from Middle English doten, to be foolish. Dotage comes from the same foolishness.

Middle English
dotynge
English, today
doting

From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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doting in the wild

In Circassian mythology, it was the Nart Sosriqwe, minion of the gods and his doting mother, Lady Satanaya, who stole fire from the giant.
Sosruko
In lines 52-72 of the tenth canto of Dante's Inferno, the poet converses with Cavalcanti about his son, Guido, and depicts the dead father as a doting parent.
Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti
A doting figure, it was she who arranged for Daiyu, her only "outside" (i.e., maternal) grandchild, to come to the Rongguo Mansion.
Grandmother Jia
In his trademark poetic fashion, as the doting father, Smokey continues...
Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues
Distributed by Moonstone Entertainment, it follows the story of Ron Lewis, the powerful "Black Baron", both a pimp and a doting father.
The Candy Tangerine Man

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