present participle and gerund of dote
Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.
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.
From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
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