1558 F. Withers tr. J. ab Indagine Briefe Introd. Art Chiromancy sig. M.viii^v Howbe it he shal not be so fortunate in children, except Iupiter do behold him with some foundly aspecte [L. nisi iucunda aliqua atque fatali irradiatione hunc aspexerit Iupiter].

1849 Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 236/1 I still will turn again With fondlier feelings far to you, oh! sylvan shades of Penn.

1852 J. B. Owen in Visct. Ingestre Meliora 135 The fond old man..squeezed it [sc. her hand] with a fondlier emotion than usual.

2005 A. Olisaeloka Dangerous Alternatives xi. 86 The resultant scenery was so beautiful and charming that it aroused in the queen memories of her fondliest moments.

1587 M. Grove Most Famous Hist. Pelops & Hippodamia sig. E.vii^v Leaue such fondly toyes.

1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 646 Bright partners of the sky, each other's gloom Cheering with smile of mutual fondliness.

a1956 R. McAlmon Nightinghouls of Paris (2007) 48 Sudge pleased me by recognizing the genial fondliness which nice colored people emanate with a cordiality that whites withhold or don't possess.

2012 @KelleyIsKing 25 July in twitter.com (accessed 11 Dec. 2018) #ImEasilyAnnoyedWhen people dont take my fondliness for someone serious...

a1450 (?1419–20) Friar Daw's Reply (Digby) l. 722 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 95 Þou feynest fonnedli þat oure lord we sclaundre.

1551 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus in Paraphr. New Test. (new ed.) Matt. ix. f. xli Suche other thynges as menne be wont to doe verye fondly.

1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iv. sig. H4 He fondly angles who will hurle his bayte Into the water, 'cause the Fish..dares not bite.

1743 C. Cibber Egotist 57 When I but play'd the Fool for Charity! But fondly to repeat it!—Senseless Ninny!

1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Fondly, foolishly. North.

1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament f. 44^v They come..not of the accidentes alone, as the Papistes do fondly phantasy.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 564 Fondly thinking to allay Thir appetite.

1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 494 This man pursues What if he gain'd he could not use: And t'other fondly hopes to see What never was, nor e'er shall be.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 202 You would fondly persuade me that my former lessons still influence your conduct.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 98 That they needs Must keep to all, as fondly all believe, Their highest promise.

1852 W. E. Gladstone Functions of Laymen in Church 38 I..am fondly perhaps, but yet firmly, assured [etc.].

1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) x. 131 [The English] have fondly traced the origin of our free institutions to the most remote ages.

1935 N. Schachner in Astounding Stories Aug. 101/1 Special defenses which they fondly believed impregnable to the mightiest weapons that human science could bring to bear.

2018 Independent (Nexis) 9 May 46 Britain will, we must fondly hope, be doing very nicely out of world-class kelp, flower arranging and tasty domestic waterfowl.

1561 H. Bennet tr. P. Melanchthon Hyst. Lyfe & Actes M. Luther in Famous & Godly Hist. Three Reformers sig. D.i For as naturally we loue our Country, so fondly we fauour the present fashions, wher in we be trained & educated.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 9 As a long parted mother with her childe Playes fondly with her teares. View more context for this quotation

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 166 A Father may loue his childe too fondly, and make him a wanton.

1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. 24 A Fourth would fondly kiss, and paw his Companions.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel ii. 34 Fondly in his arms he took Fair Geraldine.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 95 He never looked on her so fondly as now.

1931 E. Ferber They brought their Women (1933) 240 She thought of America, of New York, dimly, fondly, as one remembers a childhood game, a schoolday sweetheart.

2015 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Aug. d3/4 A local restaurant we remembered fondly from our first trip to Bulgaria.