Crossword clues for fondness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fondness \Fond"ness\, n.
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The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. [Obs.]
Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be.
--Spenser. -
Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.
My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee.
--Addison.Syn: Attachment; affection; love; kindness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "foolishness," from fond + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. the quality of being fond
WordNet
n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" [syn: fancy, partiality]
a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart" [syn: affection, affectionateness, tenderness, heart, warmheartedness]
a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love [syn: affectionateness, lovingness, warmth]
Usage examples of "fondness".
Seregil said with a hint of fondness, leading Alec up the back stairs.
If Benet could express fondness for girls in pink as the power of the gods that supported his nation was draining from him, perhaps it should not come as a surprise that the Great Twins should turn their faces from him.
For almost twenty years Pooh would not mention her dead sister, Cushie, but her fondness for children eventually confused her.
In this respect she had done injustice to his mind, which had been kept in subjection and deprived of its ordinary strength and courage, by the enfeebling fondness of his heart.
Floyt asked himself what sense it would make for Mason to bring him all this way just to feed him to a big, brown-green exoskeletal thing with a fondness for computers.
Behind the gruffness and stern air of authority he was kind and good, with a fondness for riddles and a love of song.
Like most working-class people, she harboured a fondness for the idea a woman of scarcely guilded beginnings who could rise to challenge, if only briefly, the might of the guilds.
The czarina spoke to me about the fondness of the Venetians for games of chance, and asked if the Genoa Lottery had been established there.
This particular molester has never shown a fondness for male children, though of course he may simply never have enjoyed the opportunity.
Even a lifelong acquaintance that possessed a great fondness for Jynx could not call her a beauty, or claim that she would ever be one.
As there is only one Ainsworth Kight, so everyone else counts as audience except his accompanist for whom he has a fondness, you understand, but did not bring on this tour.
But, far more grateful to thy pensive shade, Parental Fondness mourns her Lycid gone, Lycid!
Knowing that the moment he walked through the door six-year-old tales of ravished maidens, suicide, and mysterious death were immediately revived did not give him a fondness for club life.
Miles Soper and Coal undertook to swim on shore with baskets and catch some crabs, for which the fish in these seas seem to have a special fondness.
For how, carrying his tremendous load, was he to compete with these unhandicapped men in the game of nonsense she had such a fondness for starting at a table?