Extremely and uncritically fond of someone; adoring:she was spoiled outrageously by her doting father...
He frequently complimented her, playing the part of the doting husband to the hilt.
In at the birth of the peace process, Hayden remained a doting parent throughout the nineties.
He spent about four hours casting from various angles, without a hook, watching the trout with the eyes of a doting daddy.
Derivatives
dotingly
/ˈdəʊtɪŋli /adverb...
‘It is ultimately up to them,’ he says, looking dotingly at his daughters.
Seventy years ago an Eton schoolmaster dotingly built his soprano wife a bijou opera-house beside the country pile he inherited on the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne.
‘They cannot possibly compare to you,’ I said dotingly into her ear.