dotes upon
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He is an amazing dad who dotes upon our child, and he has never pressured me to try for another child or start the fostering process, although I know he wants both.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2020
He is ravenous — for food, for experience, for the acceptance of his peers — and he scarcely thinks about the solicitous father who dotes upon him.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018
France's nuclear force de frappe is the pride of Charles de Gaulle's old age, and he dotes upon it as part of his ultimate legacy to France.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Oh, she is beloved by an old fellow named Vaudrec—he dotes upon her."
From Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
My Lady Hervey, who you know dotes upon every thing French, is charmed with the hopes of these new shoes, and has already bespoke herself a pair of pigeon wood.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
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