doter

Where is the collector of Lawrence Welk records, the doter on Allen Drury novels?

The old doter, in his second childhood, makes for himself some idol, some palpable, tangible god, and the coarser it is, the better he succeeds.

The man who's neither cynic brute, Nor phrase-led sycophantic doter, May echo that.

He is no recluse, no solitary student, no dreamer about the past, no doter upon the dead and gone, no projector of the visionary.

The handsomest of them all is the "ranger," as the young doter is called.