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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Caressing: as, the caressant airs of heaven.

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Examples

  • Lest yet that haunch voluptuous, those tender hands caressant, 10

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • And the morning crept on, with words of heaven softly uttered by the living, and drunk in with eager ears by the dying; and outside the birds sang, and the green trees whispered, stretching out their tiny leaf-hands to the caressant breezes, and all was summery there without, -- all was sunshine and gladness.

    Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Fred E. Weatherly

  • V---- fut successivement flatteur, expansif, affectueux, caressant, et voyant que je ne faisais que plaisanter de tant de belles choses, il devint si pressant que je ne pus plus me tromper de ses prétensions.

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833

  • Je rêvois en marchant à celle que j'allois voir, à l'accueil caressant qu'elle me feroit, au baiser qui m'attendoit a mon arrivée.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • M. Viot se tenaient debout, caressant les enfants au passage, saluant les parents jusqu’à terre. —

    Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868

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  • "1. Caressing: as, the caressant airs of heaven." --CD&C

    October 27, 2011