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Definition of Fondnesses
1. fondness [n] - See also: fondness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fondnesses
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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