Definition of Cosseting

1. Verb. (present participle of cosset) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cosseting

1. cosset [v] - See also: cosset

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosseting

cosplayers
cosplaying
cosplays
cosponsor
cosponsored
cosponsoring
cosponsors
cosponsorship
cosponsorships
coss
cossacks
cossas
cosses
cosset
cosseted
cosseting
cossets
cossetted
cossetting
cossid
cossids
cossie
cossies
cossyrite
cossyrites
cost
cost, insurance and freight
cost-benefit analysis
cost-effective
cost-effectiveness

Literary usage of Cosseting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Moral Culture of Infancy, and Kindergarten Guide ...: By Mrs. Horace Mann by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1870)
"Hence the most characteristic work of Froebel is " The Mother's Cosseting Songs." In this imperfect world, mothers are not always true to ideal motherhood ..."

2. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1877)
"Hence the most characteristic work of Froebel is "The Mother's Cosseting Songs." In this imperfect world, mothers are not always true to ideal motherhood ..."

3. A Bachelor's Establishment =: (Un Ménage de Garçon) by Honoré de Balzac (1896)
"Instead of cosseting you, she makes you trot round like her footman—and that again is natural enough; she would like to see you six feet under the daisies ..."

4. The Maine Journal of Education (1872)
"Froebel's " Mother Cosseting Songs" (Continued.) 8. Fundamental Forms. 9. Reading. The price is moderate, only $1.00. ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS; Arranged for ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"... tinkering, and cosseting, even to the end of time. Thanks to such fostering care, the department of agriculture continues to live its life ; and it is ..."

6. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"She is the very soul of impartiality ; but there is no cosseting. Sick or well, chick must run with the others, or be left behind. ..."

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