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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fond/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fond/#x1)
- Madame was so very fond of Bellissima. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fond/#x2)
- "How fond she was of her son! (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fond/#x3)

### 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».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/38/)
- [The book calls the man a «gipsy» and says gipsies were «very fond of horse-dealing».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/25/)
- [Mole — and the terrible grey Badger, who is really rather fond of children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/9/)
- [It can be cross, surprised or fond, so you watch the face, not the word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/6/)
- [In Scotland "wee" means small, so "wee man" is a fond way to say "little lad".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fond» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fond/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.