A person who dotes; someone showing excessive fondness or weakness due to old age.
From the present participle of Latin 'dotare' (to dote), with the agent suffix '-ant'. A legal and literary term from medieval times.
This term appears primarily in old legal documents describing elderly people, and it's a reminder that our language carries historical attitudes about aging embedded in its vocabulary.
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