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Caress

noun

A gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it). "Soft music was a fond caress" , "The caresses of the breeze played over his face"

verb

(past & past part. caressed; pres. part. caressing)

Touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner. Synonym: fondle. "They fondled in the back seat of the taxi"

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... observed, how the unbelievers caress and compliment those complying gentlemen who meet them half way, while they are perpetually inveighing against the stiff divines, as they call them, whom they can make ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... the snarl presently. Then, Mary-love, we may be able to trace our lost prize." He kissed her forehead to make the hope more emphatic, and she, leaning close to him in his big chair, tilted her head nearer still, acknowledging the caress. ...

— The Girl Scouts at Bellaire - Or Maid Mary's Awakening • Lilian C. McNamara Garis

... hours of outdoor labor in these ideal surroundings. We had many pets, including a young deer who was fairly idolized by the children. I too loved the fawn so much that I allowed it to sleep in my room. At the light of dawn, the little creature would toddle over to my bed for a morning caress. ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... more on prancing palfry borne, He carolled light as lark at morn; No longer courted and caress'd, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured to lord and ...

— The Poetry of Wales • John Jenkins

... forth from her dwelling, and prayed That the pilgrims would rest them awhile; And she offered her couch to that delicate maid, Who had come many, many a mile. And she fondled the babe with affection's caress, And she begged the old man would repose; "Here the stranger," she said, "ever finds free access, And the wanderer balm ...

— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman

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