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Definition of Dotings
1. doting [n] - See also: doting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dotings
Literary usage of Dotings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"... and so often sublime that the rhetorical dotings, which he yet preserved,
disappeared under the afflux of splendours, with which it is loaded. ..."
2. American Journal of Education (1860)
"The teacher's manner was better than parental, for it had a parent's tenderness
and vigilance, without the foolish dotings or indulgences to which parental ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1843)
"... the present instance: viz, the dotings of a "fond old man" over the cherished
offspring of his brain, to which, he clings with desperate attachment, ..."
4. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"Dreams are but dotings, which come either by things wee see in the day, or meates
that we eate, and so {flatter) the common 4} sense, preferring it to bee ..."
5. Horse-shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy (1854)
"I doubt this double-faced woodman, and almost believe in the seeming frivolous
dotings of the crone at his fireside. Now, God defend us from treachery and ..."
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