noun
definition
The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
Examples of fondness in a Sentence
All the early writers dwell with great fondness on the origin and adventures of this race.
On his recovery Peter's fondness for his friend overcame his sense of justice.
The notorious fondness of the Athenians for litigation increased his power; and the practice of "sycophancy" (raking up material for false charges; see Sycophant), enabled him to remove those who were likely to endanger his ascendancy.
It is said that during his residence in Sweden Panin, who certainly had a strong speculative bent, conceived a fondness for constitutional forms of government.
As early as 1662 the king's excessive fondness for him had caused anxiety.
This rodent is one of the commonest of British mammals, and frequents fields, woods and gardens in numbers, often doing considerable damage owing to its fondness for garden produce.
I'll remember him and the times we had on tour with much fondness.
The fragments show fondness for alliteration and playing upon words, skill in the use of rustic and farcical language, and a considerable amount of obscenity.
Their essential trait is their perennial cheerfulness, and their fondness for dance and song and every sort of amusement.
Jesus had a special fondness for those on the fringes of society.
I Descartes, with an, xnusual fondness for the letter of Scripture, quotes oftener than once in support of this monstrous doctrine the dictum, " the blood is the life "; and he remarks, with some sarcasm possibly, that it is a comfortable theory for the eaters of animal flesh.
He was maltreated by the leading boyars whom successive revolutions placed at the head of affairs, and hence he conceived an inextinguishable hatred of their whole order and a corresponding fondness for the merchant class, their natural enemies.
I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity.
A cook with a fondness for deep fried foods and chocolate desserts will use different tools than one who regularly enjoys poached eggs and apple sauce.
Early Christianity had thus naturally a special fondness for this class of literature.
The representation of the university had been pronounced by Canning to be the most coveted prize of public life, and Gladstone himself confessed that he " desired it with an almost passionate fondness."
The king shared his fondness for hunting and rapidly advanced him in favour.
Destined by his father to the pursuits of trade, he was allowed, nevertheless, to indulge his fondness for music, and learnt to play at an early age on several instruments, his first teacher being the Tirolean composer, I.
His enthusiasm for the land and the people, his idealistic outlook, his bright but simple manner, his utter lack of conventionality and stiffness, his fondness for travelling and nature and sport captivated the Canadian heart.
Another peculiarity, more fatal to him in that aristocratic age than any other, was his fondness for the common people, which was increased by his passion for a pretty Dutch girl, named Dyveke, who became his mistress in 1507 or 1509.
His literary training was inadequate; his vocabulary is limited and his style awkward and pretentious; and he had a fondness for moralizing tritely and obviously, which mars his best passages.
She stared after him, still perplexed by the hug - a fatherly or brotherly demonstration of fondness?
Guitar bows and pigeon coos and where is the lowest level of fondness and longing and sorrow in a house?
His fondness of a wee dram was to be his undoing.
I award her now the medal for total absorption, for being so forgetful of her father's fondness for hitting.
He retained an enduring fondness for the college that witnessed his development from a rebellious teenager to a professional mathematician.
The Minister has a great fondness for Poland, which I know is shared by many in the Chamber.
I have a real, real growing fondness for David and his relationship to actors.
She was spotted by Zeus, a god with a particular fondness for mortal women, on one of his many visits to earth.
I also have a certain fondness for the term pus which they use in Dundee.
Saba was welcomed, and quickly smothered by the Tunisian fondness for children.
If the conclusions suggested under Sabini may be accepted as sound we should expect to find the Volsci speaking a language similar to that of the Ligures, whose fondness for the suffix -sco- we have noticed (see Ligures), and identical with that spoken by the plebeians of Rome, and that this branch of Indo-European was among those which preserved the original Indo-European Velars from the labialization which befell them in the speech of the Samnites.
In 1743 he was elected heir to the throne of Sweden by the "Hat" faction in order that they might obtain better conditions of peace from the empress Elizabeth, whose fondness for the house of Holstein was notorious (see Sweden, History).
His fondness for literature, however, soon made itself felt, and he published several slight pieces, until the outbreak of the French Revolution called him to a sterner occupation.
During the four years which Lessing spent in Breslau, he associated chiefly with Prussian officers, went much into society, and developed a dangerous fondness for the gaming table.
The adults have a fondness for fermenting fruit which brings them into gardens to feed on fallen apples and ripe raspberries.
Any fondness I may have developed for eating there was curtailed by a serious bout of food poisoning brought on by the spaghetti vongole.
Members of the thrush family are well-known for their fondness for berries.
For that reason I have a certain fondness for this type of formula - it's easy and quick to apply, and it's so petite it can fit anywhere, unlike traditional perfume bottles.
Spanish food is a reflection of the culture's fondness for full flavor and familiar faces.
That now must enter every conversation, spoken of with fondness, tripping off your particular tongue.
Consider really putting your passion into your cake, whether you have a flair for the artistic or a fondness for what's simple and traditional, and you will end up with a one-of-a-kind wedding cake design.
Sultry Megan Fox has often been compared to Angelina Jolie because of her status as a sex symbol and fondness for tattoos.
Though he had a fondness for Broadway theatre, his first major role was on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, where he played Dr. William "Snapper" Foster for six seasons, from 1975 to 1982.
Some of these pendants are meant as a set to be split between friends or they can be given individually as a token of fondness and caring.
She had a fondness for dismembering dolls, for anyone who wants to carry a prop.
There is a sense of fondness and nostalgia that the ghost should inspire.
This is your special day, after all, and you should be able to look back on your wedding attire with fondness.
Emma seems like a real sweet girl with a fondness for Harry Potter, but surprises Blair with threats.
Maybe it wasn't funny at the time, but if you can laugh about it now, then you can look back on the experience with fondness.