Definition of "doling"

doling

verb
1. present participle and gerund of dole
noun
plural dolings
1. The act of one who doles.
  Quotations
  Alas! we talk of their vanity; we forget that, in doling forth the careless commendation, or as careless sneer, we are bestowing but the passing thought of a moment to that which has been the work of an existence.
  1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 246
  Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.
  1869, Catholic World, volume 8, page 712