Definition of "caresses" [caresses]

• Plural form of caress. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caress. (verb)

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• "Such attentions as she had received, particularly when they literally touch the body, are sometimes called the caresses of the master's steel."
• "To be plain, and not mystical, it is obvious that if I had expected compliments and caresses from the English press to my 'Poems before Congress,' the said poems would have been little deserved in England, and a greater mistake on my part than any committed by the 'Athenaeum,' which is saying much."
• "To be plain, and not mystical, it is obvious that if I had expected compliments and caresses from the English press to my 'Poems before"