单词 | caress |
释义 | caressn. 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. 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. 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). < n.1651v.1679 |
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