"caressing name" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1834 February, Christian Isobel Johnstone, “The Sabbath Night’s Supper”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 9",
          "text": "Robin’s Young Chevalier diligently filled the glass of Charles’s Greysteel,—such were their old caressing names for each other […]",
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          "ref": "1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 3, in Ruth, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 78",
          "text": "“Mother,” said he, after a pause, coming nearer […] “mammy darling,” said he, using the caressing name, which he had been trying to drop as not sufficiently manly",
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          "text": "1866, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Birds of Prey, Book 3, Chapter 4, in Belgravia, February, 1867, p. 395,\nMiss Halliday consented to call her mother’s husband “Papa,” though the caressing name seemed in a manner to stick in her throat."
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          "text": "1923, Ernest Jones, “The Theory of Symbolism” in Papers on Psycho-Analysis, New York: William Wood, p. 142,\n[…] the four ideas that keep recurring in connection with the name ‘punchinello’ are (1) a caressing name for male offspring, equivalent to ‘little man’ […]"
        },
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          "ref": "1949, Dorothy Bussy, chapter 5, in Olivia, London: Hogarth Press, published 1950, page 40",
          "text": "She would call me by caressing names, she would talk to me about my dear Mamma and my little brothers and sisters […]",
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        "A name or nickname used to express affection, especially to a child, parent, or other loved one."
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          "affection",
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          "child",
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          "parent",
          "parent"
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          "loved one",
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        "(archaic) A name or nickname used to express affection, especially to a child, parent, or other loved one."
      ],
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          "word": "pet name"
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          "word": "term of endearment"
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          "ref": "1834 February, Christian Isobel Johnstone, “The Sabbath Night’s Supper”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 9",
          "text": "Robin’s Young Chevalier diligently filled the glass of Charles’s Greysteel,—such were their old caressing names for each other […]",
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        },
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        },
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          "text": "1866, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Birds of Prey, Book 3, Chapter 4, in Belgravia, February, 1867, p. 395,\nMiss Halliday consented to call her mother’s husband “Papa,” though the caressing name seemed in a manner to stick in her throat."
        },
        {
          "text": "1923, Ernest Jones, “The Theory of Symbolism” in Papers on Psycho-Analysis, New York: William Wood, p. 142,\n[…] the four ideas that keep recurring in connection with the name ‘punchinello’ are (1) a caressing name for male offspring, equivalent to ‘little man’ […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Dorothy Bussy, chapter 5, in Olivia, London: Hogarth Press, published 1950, page 40",
          "text": "She would call me by caressing names, she would talk to me about my dear Mamma and my little brothers and sisters […]",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A name or nickname used to express affection, especially to a child, parent, or other loved one."
      ],
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          "affection",
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        ],
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          "parent",
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        ],
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          "loved one",
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        "(archaic) A name or nickname used to express affection, especially to a child, parent, or other loved one."
      ],
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