寵ちょう愛あい昂こうじて尼あまにする

expression, suru verb (irregular)

to love one's child too much for their own good; to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun

Rare, literary set phrase. Literally 'to love so excessively that one makes (her) a nun', used hyperbolically for overindulgent parental love that ends up harming the child. The literal nun reference is part of the fixed expression.

• 「寵ちょう愛あい昂こうじて尼あまにする」とは、子こ供どもを甘あまやかしすぎるとかえって不ふ幸こうにするというたとえだ。

  '寵愛昂じて尼にする' is a saying that spoiling a child too much will only make them unhappy in the end.