different between doting vs doating

English

Alternative forms

• doating (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote +? -ing.

Verb

doting

1. present participle of dote

Adjective

doting (comparative more doting, superlative most doting)

1. Characterized by giving love and affection.

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.

Anagrams

• tin dog, tin god

English

Verb

doating

1. (obsolete) present participle of doat; doting
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88

     "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.

Noun

doating (plural doatings)

1. Obsolete form of doting.
   • 1865, The Sunday Magazine (page 98)

     […] infinite love, and grace, and condescension, and fatherly yearnings, and conjugal doatings […]

Anagrams

• antidog, antigod, gonatid, toading