Caring
['keərɪŋ] or ['kɛrɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others; 'caring friends' .
Typist: Rowland--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Care
Typed by Claus
Examples
- But we were not caring for these things --they did not interest us in the least. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This it is, her not caring about you, which gives her such a soft skin, and makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is time to think of our visitors, said Maria, still feeling her hand pressed to Henry Crawford's heart, and caring little for anything else. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I had my doubts of their caring so very much for Morgan ap-Kerrig in India and China, but of course I never expressed them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There is nothing in the elementary study of botany which cannot be introduced in a vital way in connection with caring for the growth of seeds. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Attention means caring for a thing, in the sense of both affection and of looking out for its welfare. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is a commencement of caring for every one. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He is very abstemious, hardly ever touching alcohol, caring little for meat, but fond of fruit, and never averse to a strong cup of coffee or a good cigar. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We were a little fatigued with sight seeing, and so we rattled through a good deal of country by rail without caring to stop. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A few years ago it had sufficed her: she had taken her daily meed of pleasure without caring who provided it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mr. Farebrother puffed a few moments in silence, Lydgate not caring to know more about the Garths. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Not caring to go too near the door, until the appointed time, Mr. Pickwick crouched into an angle of the wall, and awaited its arrival. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He came back gay and self-satisfied, eager and busy, caring nothing for Miss Woodhouse, and defying Miss Smith. Jane Austen. Emma.
- These truces with the infidels, he exclaimed, without caring how suddenly he interrupted the stately Templar, make an old man of me! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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