fond

«fond» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: fond — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

fond

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

liking someone or something a lot, or loving someone. tree →

how it differs from today

The old sense was foolish, but these sentences use today's sense of liking and loving.

examples

• “Are you not fond of berries? (The Brown Fairy Book) tree →
• Madame was so very fond of Bellissima. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• "How fond she was of her son! (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

primary record

fond

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 230 (Torah 0, tales 229, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 1; ratio 8.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• He hated disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole».
• The book calls the man a «gipsy» and says gipsies were «very fond of horse-dealing».
• Mole — and the terrible grey Badger, who is really rather fond of children.
• It can be cross, surprised or fond, so you watch the face, not the word.
• In Scotland "wee" means small, so "wee man" is a fond way to say "little lad".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fond» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.