doat

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of dote.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take⟳ him for.”

“I took any means to get⟳ access to you. O speak⟳ to me, Sophia! comfort my bleeding heart. Sure no one ever loved, ever doated like⟳ me.”

“--And maun I still on Menie doat, And bear⟳ the scorn that's in her e'e?”

““Is not she looking well?” said he, turning his eyes towards Jane. “Better than she ever used to do?—You see⟳ how my father and Mrs. Weston doat upon her.””

“We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live⟳ in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements^([sic]).”

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