doting upon

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"When the vestry came to me about the case, I reminded them that Aholah and Aholibah were damned for doting upon paintings on the wall, painted in vermilion, which in plain English is Scarlett!"

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

While the apostle sharply taxeth them as guilty of schism and division for their carnal crying up of their several teachers: some doting upon one, some upon another, some upon a third, &c.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

And of a House of Commons," interrupted Bridgenorth, "no longer doting upon restored monarchy, but awakened, as with a peal of thunder, to the perilous state of our religion, and of our freedom.

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir

What is this love and doting upon him?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John