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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

That dotes; silly; excessively fond.

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Dot′ing-ly

adv.

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Dot′ing-ness

Noun.

ppr.

Regarding with excessive fondness.

doting

doting ‎(comparative more doting, superlative most doting)

doting ‎(plural dotings)

Excessive fondness; reverence.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 1
  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.