cosseting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cosset

plural cossetings

1. The act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.

   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.

   1966, Miss Read, The Market Square

   1 more example

   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”.

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