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doteth

doteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dote.

Meaning of dote

Verb (1)

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

  1. (intransitive, stative, usually, with-on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
    • Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
    Synonyms:
    adore, love
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
    • He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.1692–1717, Robert South, “Ill-disposed Affections […] ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To rot, decay.

Verb (2)

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

See all 8 meanings of dote

Origin of doteth

From dote + -eth.

Questions about doteth

What is doteth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Doteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dote.

Words near doteth in the dictionary

  1. doters
  2. dotery
  3. dotes
  4. dotes over
  5. dotest
  6. doteth
  7. dotfile
  8. dotfiles
  9. doth
  10. Dothan
  11. dothead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doteth (page history and authors); dote (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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