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Synonyms for fondness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fond-nis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɒnd nɪs |
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Définition of fondness
Origin :- late 14c., from fond + -ness.
- noun liking or taste for
- She had a fondness and admiration for this child and her audacity.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- I am fonder of you than any other man I know, but it is the fondness of long friendship.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- For once, he had expressed that fondness in a primitive fashion, and he was glad.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Sia looked steadily at the girl, and a fondness for her grew in his heart.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- And the Jews, when they left Egypt, looked back with fondness to these delicacies.
- Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
- His dislike of purple and fondness for the opposition of yellow and black.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
- It was at that period you told me all that nonsense about your fondness for your creations.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- And at the same time their fondness for money makes them unwilling to pay taxes.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Pride rose to support the fondness and the admiration she had felt for him.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Thunder Mountain » by Edfrid A. Bingham
- I believe it arises very much from a fondness for the weapon.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 » by Various
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