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Caressing   /kərˈɛsɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Caress  v. t.  (past & past part. caressed; pres. part. caressing)  To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. "The lady caresses the rough bloodhound."
Synonyms: To fondle; embrace; pet; coddle; court; flatter. Caress, Fondle. "We caress by words or actions; we fondle by actions only."


noun
caressing  n.  
1.
The act of embracing; holding in one's arms.
2.
Foreplay without contact with the genital organs.
Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling.


adjective
caressive, caressing  adj.  Showing love. "Caressing words"





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"Caressing" Quotes from Famous Books



... defiantly. Luigi straightened himself. Rag sprang upon her fawning and caressing; she shoved him aside roughly, for the dog was at that moment but the scapegoat for his master; Rag cowered ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller
... rosy-cheeked six-year-old boy. Sitting in the cottage she would call him to her side and would hold his hand while conversing with his mother; she would also bare the child's arm just for the pleasure of rubbing it with her hand and clasping it round with her fingers, and sometimes when caressing the child in this way she would turn her face aside to hide the tears ...
— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson
... something has happened to you," she said, caressing his cheek. "When my Judah was a child, I allowed small things to trouble him, but he is now a man. He must not forget"—her voice became very soft—"that one day he is to be ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... phenomena of polarity are related. The following experiments by MM. Binet and Fere are given in illustration: "We give a patient in somnambulism the common hallucination of a bird poised on her finger. While she is caressing the imaginary bird she is awakened and a magnet is brought near her head. After a few minutes she stops short, raises her eyes and looks about in astonishment. The bird which was on her finger has disappeared. ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various
... radiance of love surrounded them, but these simple children of nature dared not speak of it. They felt it, although they knew not what they felt; they were embarrassed but happy. Never before had the forest sung so wonderfully over their heads, never was the wind so sweet and caressing, never at any time had the noises of the forest, the rustling of the breeze in the trees, the voices of the birds, the echoes of the woods, seemed to merge into such an angelic choir, so sweet and grand, as at this moment, full ...
— Sielanka: An Idyll • Henryk Sienkiewicz


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