Both Uses of

fawn
in
Utopia, by Thomas More

and if they court any, it is only those for whom the prince has much personal favour, whom by their fawning and flatteries they endeavour to fix to their own interests;†

I might have contracted it, but I resolved to give it you at large, that you might observe how those that despised what I had proposed, no sooner perceived that the Cardinal did not dislike it but presently approved of it, fawned so on him and flattered him to such a degree, that they in good earnest applauded those things that he only liked in jest; and from hence you may gather how little courtiers would value either me or my counsels.†
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fawned = showed excessive flattery or affection

Definitions:

(1) (fawn as in: fawned all over her)
showing excessive flattery or affection
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

"Fawn" more commonly describes a young deer.