noun
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The act or process of endearing, of causing (something or someone) to be loved or to be the object of affection.
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The state or characteristic of being endeared.
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An expression of affection.
Examples of endearment in a Sentence
In spite of the lapse of years, they seem so close to me that I should not think it strange if at any moment they should clasp my hand and speak words of endearment as they used to before they went away.
Perhaps your pet's name is a family name, endearment, description or reflection of a habit.
There probably isn't such a thing as state-of-the-art free music, but as a term of convenient endearment, it's close enough.
The tone combined with the much coveted endearment of 'Dad' caught him totally off guard.
The result was the publication, in 1349, of the Zakonik Tsara Dushana (Tsar Dushan's Book of Laws), a code of great historical interest which proves that Servia was not much behind the foremost European states in 1 Dushan is a term of endearment, derived from dusha, "the soul," and not, as formerly believed by Western philologists, from dushiti, " to strangle."
He liked to talk and he talked well, adorning his speech with terms of endearment and with folk sayings which Pierre thought he invented himself, but the chief charm of his talk lay in the fact that the commonest events--sometimes just such as Pierre had witnessed without taking notice of them--assumed in Karataev's a character of solemn fitness.
Jack Nicholson actually has three awards, however, since he also won a Best Supporting Actor statue in 1983 for Terms of Endearment.
Flirting phrases in French language tend to be compliments, terms of endearment, and casual banter between two people.
The English language may have phrases such as "my pet" as a term of endearment, but the French love animal pet names when flirting.
Terms of Endearment (1983) - Shirley MacLaine stars as a woman who is devoted to her daughter until the very end when she's demanding the hospital staff give her drugs to ease her pain.