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  • noun Plural form of dandling.

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  • Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes have taken office dandlings to new heights, divorce courts and shed their wives for lithesome, young underlings.

    BlatherWatch 2008

  • How often, and, peradventure, how foolishly, have I extended my book to make it speak of itself; foolishly, if for no other reason but this, that it should remind me of what I say of others who do the same: that the frequent amorous glances they cast upon their work witness that their hearts pant with self-love, and that even the disdainful severity wherewith they scourge them are but the dandlings and caressings of maternal love; as Aristotle, whose valuing and undervaluing himself often spring from the same air of arrogance.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 19 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • How often, and, peradventure, how foolishly, have I extended my book to make it speak of itself; foolishly, if for no other reason but this, that it should remind me of what I say of others who do the same: that the frequent amorous glances they cast upon their work witness that their hearts pant with self-love, and that even the disdainful severity wherewith they scourge them are but the dandlings and caressings of maternal love; as Aristotle, whose valuing and undervaluing himself often spring from the same air of arrogance.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

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