Cosset meaning

Verb: cosset

Pronunciation: (ko-sit)

Cosset meaning: Treat with excessive indulgence

Synonyms: baby, coddle, cocker, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil

Quotations: Faye Dunaway – The whole era when I was busy being a big movie star was terribly disconcerting. I was cared for and cosseted, and yet I was totally dependent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature is no sentimentalist, does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet and freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

Mark Gatiss – Fear is an underrated emotion. And that’s why I think it’s very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they’re two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

Sample sentences:

1. The luxurious car cossets its occupants in comfort.
2. She made continuous attempts to cosset my soul.
3. Mothers are there to grasp the inexplicable. We are there to light up the darkness. We are there to cosset when the lightning strikes and streaks across the night sky, when the thunder shakes the ground, when the mud slides and swallows. We are there to love without beginning or end.
4. I don’t wish to inhabit the world under false pretences. I’m relieved to have discovered my identity after being so confused about it for so many years. Why should people be afraid if I confide in them? Yet people will always be afraid and jealous of those who finally establish their identity; it leads them to consider their own, to seclude it, cosset it, for fear it may be borrowed or interfered with, and when they are in the act of protecting it they suffer the shock of realising that their identity is nothing, it is something they dreamed and never knew.
5. Politicians never try to cosset the public from their constituencies.
6. I do not need to poison them. I could just cosset them with leftover baby powder.
7. They did not cosset their women and they always considered those who did so to be unmanly.
8. The overwhelming impulse to cosset her, to protect her emotionally and physically was never easy for my friend.
9. All my life I have been cosseted by my family.
10. It is not good to cosset the children always.