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doating

doating is the present participle and gerund of doat.

doating is the obsolete form of doting.

Meaning of doting

Noun

doting (plural dotings)

  1. Excessive fondness; reverence.
    • 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.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

See all 3 meanings of doting

Forms of doating

pluraldoatings

Questions about doating

What is doating the present participle and gerund of?
Doating is the present participle and gerund of doat.

Words near doating in the dictionary

  1. Doars
  2. doat
  3. doated
  4. doater
  5. doaters
  6. doating
  7. doating-piece
  8. doating-pieces
  9. doatingly
  10. doatings
  11. doatish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doating (page history and authors); doting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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