fondness
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Piece by piece, my framer has become intimate with me: my choosiness, my fondnesses, my dumb, entirely sincere urge to create remarkability.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2020
No, no, my charmer, I cannot bear the least supposed decay in those dear fondnesses of thine; and sure none ever became a maid so well, nor ever were received with adorations, like to mine!
From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Behn, Aphra
His daughter, who not unreasonably expected to inherit money, plate, and jewels of considerable value, never ceased inveighing against her father's anachronistic fondnesses.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
They found that their quiet love had grown many-fold stronger, sweeter, in the two weeks it had been denied the silly fondnesses of utterance.
From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair
I can unite little fondnesses with perfect conjugal love.'
From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by Leask, W. Keith (William Keith)
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