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cosseting

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of cosset

  2. The act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.

    • It was decided that she should go for a week or two to Rose Lodge to regain her strength, and submit to the welcome cossetings of her mother and grandmother.
    • As Guy de Jonquières has noted, Singapore’s success owes more to the fact that it is a “meticulously planned economy” with “handholding and cosseting” of overseas investors by “powerful, eager to please bureaucrats”.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA