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单词 caress
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caressn.

Brit. /kəˈrɛs/, U.S. /kəˈrɛs/
Forms: Also 1600s carresse, caresse, ( charesse).
Etymology: < French caresse, 16th cent. < Italian carezza < late Latin *cāritia, < cārus dear.
a. An action of endearment, a fondling touch or action, a blandishment.
ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Caresse, a cheering, cherishing..hugging..making much of.]
1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living x. xiv. (R.) All the caresses and sweetness of love.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 56 Solve high dispute With conjugal Caresses . View more context for this quotation
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 52 The goat..easily attaches itself to man, and seems sensible of his caresses.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xii. 129 She felt his caress no more than if he had kissed a mask.
b. figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > instance of caressing
toya1400
endearing1622
fondling1640
caressa1657
endearment1702
fondle1750
woo1937
love-up1953
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxxi, in Poems (1878) IV. 168 'T wer in vaine To frame Carresses of Discourse.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 98 The Scots made all the Caresses to many of the English.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 77. ⁋2 When the gifts and caresses of mankind shall recompense the toils of study.
1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxx. 233 The caresses of faction, and the allurements of popularity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

caressv.

Brit. /kəˈrɛs/, U.S. /kəˈrɛs/
Etymology: < French caresse-r to caress, fondle, < Italian carezzare , < carezza ; see caress n.
1.
a. transitive. To treat affectionately or blandishingly, to touch, stroke, or pat endearingly; to fondle.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)]
freeOE
coy1340
daunsel1362
to fawn on, upon1477
daut?a1513
cherish1568
fona1586
minion1598
flatter1599
ingle1599
biscot1653
ningle1659
fond1676
smuggle1679
fondle1686
caress1697
nauntle1828
smudge1844
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 359 (heading) The Natives caress them.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Oct. (1965) I. 276 She caress'd me as if I had been her daughter.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend vi. 287 My very hands seem to caress her.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 141 Isabell was caressing the fawn.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
c1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 161 Fondly caressing this little flower.
1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xiv. 258 Acacia-boughs caressed its panes.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 195 Its prolonged echoes caress the ear.
2.
a. figurative. To treat with kindness of favour, pet, make much of. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > treat kindly [verb (transitive)]
treatc1440
kind?c1450
caress1682
1682 Addr. from Chester in London Gaz. No. 1764/4 [We] do further resolve and promise not to Caress or Encourage any person who shall obstinately persist in courses disliked by Your Majesty.
1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 325 For the sweetness of his Disposition caress'd by all Men.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 287 Sultan Suliman highly caressed a Person, concerning whom he had heard so much.
1740 S. Johnson Blake in Wks. IV. 359 Without being much countenanced or caressed by his superiors.
1774 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. II. 5 The poets of the north were..greatly caressed by our Anglo-Saxon kings.
1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. II. 227.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 128 William was thus busy in half caressing, half coercing, his English subjects.
b. figurative. To ‘treat’. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > treat kindly [verb (transitive)] > be gracious or show favour to > do a favour to or treat
favourc1374
to do a person (a) pleasure1460
to show a person (a) pleasure1460
oblige1567
engage1626
caress1679
serve1794
1679 T. Hobbes Behemoth (unauthorized ed.) 207 Lambert..caressed his Soldiers with an entertainment, at his own house.
1699 T. Cockman tr. Cicero Offices ii. xvi. 199 Sums..daily thrown away to Caress the People.
3. absol.
ΚΠ
1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 96 To treat with your Friend as a Serpent caressing with the Tail.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 200. ⁋15 Some..offend when they design to caress.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxv. 261 She slept, while we were caressing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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