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Definition of Fondest
1. fond [adj] - See also: fond
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fondest
Literary usage of Fondest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson, Thomas Bird Mosher (1911)
"Halts by me that footfall: Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand, outstretched
caressingly ? "Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest, I am He Whom thou seekest! ..."
2. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"... emulating the glory of the man, whom neither our warmest admiration, nor our
fondest predilection, could protect from the fatal shaft. ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"We are a quarter of a mile from the abbey, which sends us a huge moonbeam through
Why wait, when the sky is crowning my fondest wishes! ..."
4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"But the lapse of fifty years in the history of this college has wrought changes
so great that they have probably exceeded the fondest ambitions of the wise ..."
5. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"Abandonment of my fondest Hope.—Honest Alvez.—He lies like Truth.—Plotting.—The
Levee.—Warned and armed.—The Ceremony.—Salaams of the Chiefs. ..."
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