Word Meanings - FOND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Find. Found. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOND)

• Devoted
• Attached
• fond
• absorbed
• consecrated
• ardent
• loving
• dedicated
• given
• abandoned
• Favorable
• Permissive
• indulgent
• propitious
• concessive
• partial
• liberal
• advantageous
• auspicious
• friendly

Related words: (words related to FOND)

• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• CONCESSIVELY
  By way of concession.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• DEDICATORY
  Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• LOVELILY
  In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway.
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• LOVELOCK
  A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• CLOVEN
  from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• CLOVE
  imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch See under Hitch. -- Clove hook , an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• DISCONSECRATE
  To deprive of consecration or sacredness.