cosseting

cosseting

1. present participle and gerund of cosset

cosseting (plural cossetings)

1. The act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.
   • 1966, Miss Read, The Market Square:

     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.

   • 2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     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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