Definition of "fond"

more fond on her than she upon her love

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]

a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures

1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […]

“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”

1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace‎

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patentto offend, for if it touch not you, it comes nearnobody.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

Grant I may never prove so fondTo trust man on his oath or bond.

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

[T]hou seestHow suttly to detaine thee I devise,Inviting thee to hear while I relate,Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply …

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

But reason with your fond religion fights,For many gods are many infinites …

1669, John Dryden, Tyrannic Love, III.ii

The foolish, fond Old Year,

1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Midnight Mass For the Dying Year

Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.

1812–1818, Lord Byron, “Canto XCI”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, (please specify the stanza number)

The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]