Doating

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of doting. alt-of, obsolete

    "[…] infinite love, and grace, and condescension, and fatherly yearnings, and conjugal doatings […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of doat; doting form-of, gerund, obsolete, participle, present

    ""Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia."

Synonyms

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adoringadoringaffectionaffectionateagingancient

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""Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia."

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