Lexicographical Neighbors of Caressive
Literary usage of Caressive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sexual life of the child by Albert Moll (1919)
"We cannot dispute the truth of the statement made by various authors, that in
these caressive inclinations sexual elements are intermingled. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1899)
"I do not know; I only know that to one who watches thus, caressive and personal
becomes his hold upon the full-blown flower of the day; it has opened under ..."
3. Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse by Thomas Robert Smith (1921)
"Ah! she whose wise caressive fingers strike Your heart-strings and the cithara
alike! By what love-potion is your passion fanned, What is the magic of that ..."
4. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861)
"... neither sprightly nor gloomy, but thoughtful and intelligent; his address is
neither caressive nor repulsive, but unaffectedly civil and decorous; ..."
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