fondling

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You have been feeling and fondling, and you see the natural consequence.

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  1. A person who is fond or foolish; one of weak mind or character; a fool. Yet were her words and lookes but false and fayned, To some hid end to make more easie way, Or to allure such fondlings whom she trayned Into her trap unto their owne decay. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vi. 42. We have many such fondlings that are their wives' pack-horses and slaves. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 568.
  2. A person or thing fondled or caressed. The badges of a fondlynge, as Braue napkyns, bracelettes, rynges, He layde away, and went to schoole To learn more sober thinges. Drant, tr. of Horace's Satires, i. 3. He was his parents' darling, not their fondling. Fuller.

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