FONDNESS

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Traducere în limba română

fondness substantiv

1. duioşie, dragoste, gingăşie, afecţiune, tandreţe.

2. devotament orb; indulgenţă excesivă (a unei mame etc.)

3. predilecţie, gust;

fondness for study predilecţie pentru studiu.

4. (înv.) prostie, sminteală, nebunie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Now a person wouldn't think it, fur to see this little thing alongside a rough-weather chap like me, said Mr. Peggotty, looking round at both of us, with infinite pride; but the sea ain't more salt in it than she has fondness in her for her uncle—a foolish little Em'ly!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You have now given exactly the explanation which I ventured to make for you to your friend and Mrs. Grant, and they were both better satisfied, though your warm-hearted friend was still run away with a little by the enthusiasm of her fondness for Henry.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She cried as if she had loved Miss Crawford more than she possibly could; and Miss Crawford, yet farther softened by the sight of such emotion, hung about her with fondness, and said, I hate to leave you.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I am glad to recollect that when the carrier's cart was at the gate, and my mother stood there kissing me, a grateful fondness for her and for the old place I had never turned my back upon before, made me cry.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Admiral and Mrs. Crawford, though agreeing in nothing else, were united in affection for these children, or, at least, were no farther adverse in their feelings than that each had their favourite, to whom they showed the greatest fondness of the two.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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