Definition of Fondnesses

1. Noun. (plural of fondness) ¹

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Definition of Fondnesses

1. fondness [n] - See also: fondness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fondnesses

fonded
fonder
fondest
fonding
fondle
fondleable
fondled
fondler
fondlers
fondles
fondling
fondlingly
fondlings
fondly
fondness
fondnesses
fondon
fonds
fondu
fondue
fondued
fondueing
fondues
fonduing
fonduk
fonduks
fondus
fone
fong disease
fonly

Literary usage of Fondnesses

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

1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"And these he titled speculums* which frequently admonished him of some growing fondnesses: for when he perceived the rising of them, he took up his speculum ..."

2. The Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen (1909)
"... smiling with old gayeties and old fondnesses. He bulked so rotund inside his overcoat and looked so short under the flat headgear that her first thought ..."

3. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876)
"... no fondnesses of brother to sister, of wife to husband, are there pertinent, but quite otherwise. ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"His other hobbies are various; listed, his fondnesses include, "foxtrots, Stravinsky, chocolate ice-cream, blondes, brunettes, swimming, sitting in motion ..."

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