Crossword clues for fonder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fond \Fond\, a. [Compar. Fonder; superl. Fondest.] [For fonned, p. p. of OE. fonnen to be foolish. See Fon.]
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Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic]
Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond.
--Shak. Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.
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Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).
More fond on her than she upon her love.
--Shak.You are as fond of grief as of your child.
--Shak.A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures.
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Doted on; regarded with affection. [R.]
Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
--Byron. Trifling; valued by folly; trivial. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: fond)
Usage examples of "fonder".
He would have liked her to be a little fonder of the boy: but even to that he reconciled himself.
Emmy skurrying off on the arm of George (now grown a dashing young gentleman) and the Colonel seizing up his little Janey, of whom he is fonder than of anything in the world—fonder even than of his “History of the Punjaub.
As the game continued, I grew fonder and fonder of the ugly, gnarled dwarf who'd become my surrogate parent.
Every day she seems to get fonder and fonder of her uncle, and more loth to part from all of us.