darling
noun
a person very dear to another; one dearly loved.
darlingness
-
a word derived from
darling.
Example Sentences
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"Nettarion, Phabion, for the darlingness"; and for all her intellect and ardour, it is greatly this that makes Balaustion queen—the lovely eager sweetness, the tenderness, the "darlingness": Aristophanes guessed almost right!
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
Wiedeman might compete, though, in darlingness with the child, as the poem shows him.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
