fondness
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Fondness for hamburgers is not one of them.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2023
Fondness for Soviet troops stationed in eastern Germany, he said, became the “basis for an intense nostalgia or sentimentality.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022
Fondness for something in the context of relentless, multi-front attacks can make it take on deeper intensity.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2021
And: “Well-meaning conversations about basketball. Spontaneous arm-wrestling, spontaneous touching of one’s biceps or hair. Lifestyle cults, actual cults. Houses with no other houses anywhere near them. Fondness for woods. The game Bingo!”
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018
And I brought my Mind to that Temper of Indifference never to have a violent Aversion or Fondness for any thing.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
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