Crossword clues for dearly
dearly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dearly \Dear"ly\, adv.
In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.
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At a high rate or price; grievously.
He buys his mistress dearly with his throne.
--Dryden. Exquisitely. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English deorlice (see dear).
Wiktionary
adv. in a dear manner
WordNet
adv. in a sincere and heartfelt manner; "I would dearly love to know" [syn: in a heartfelt way]
at a great cost; "he paid dearly for the food"; "this cost him dear" [syn: dear]
with affection; "she loved him dearly"; "he treats her affectionately" [syn: affectionately, dear]
Usage examples of "dearly".
Most of the hysterical antipollution Instant Experts so dearly love their personal wheels that they forgive their dear beasts any nasty stink they may produce.
I provoke him, the better he loves me, and I will make him pay dearly when he asks me to make it up.
These directions were all piously carried out by a mourning people, who decked his mound with the gold he had won, and erected above it a Bauta, or memorial stone, to show how dearly they had loved their brave king Beowulf, who had died to save them from the fury of the dragon.
Anywhere in Chatham County would have been far too easy lest they lay her in an unmarked grave and he doubted Robert Boucharde would have allowed that for he had dearly loved his sister.
For this man, indeed, the reliques, the trappings, the minaret-crowned monuments, the barbaric chants and gold ornaments, all the thousand rich things that recalled Muscovy and the buried empire to him, and that he loved so dearly, were valuable chiefly because they were the emblems of the time that bore the happy present.
Fortune, who dearly loves such tricks, was having a little sport with them both, and Fortune may show a Chaucerian roughness when she cracks jokes.
Miss Emma loved him dearly and installed him as coeditor, a position he used to write long editorials blasting everything that moved in Ford County.
It was darker yet in the outlying streets of cheaply built and dearly rented white frame houses, streets where bright lights and neon were strangers, streets where fluted-saucer reflectors behind incandescent bulbs threw islands of light at sixty-foot intervals in the sea of night.
I would dearly love to see if I can tell a demirep from a Duchess at a glance.
And if some rose to be emperors through the valor of their mighty right arms, by my faith, it cost them dearly in the quantities of blood and sweat they shed, and if those who rose to such great heights had not had enchanters and wise men to help them, they would have been thwarted in their desires and deceived in their hopes.
It ended in favour of Napoleon, but he and France paid dearly for it: while General Kirschner and Duroc were talking together the former was killed by a cannon-ball, which mortally wounded the latter in the abdomen.
We follow the facts no matter where they lead, even though we must give up dearly cherished schemes, ideologies, soul-fancies, prejudices.
One of them was wounded in the face, and he has followed his assailant, and will make him pay dearly for it.
Every hairsbreadth of movement cost him dearly, but he freed himself and stepped back from in between the uprights.
The disaster spread from its source, each hapless human ninepin more likely than not to knock down others so that they fell over the danger-laden boundary, and in turn ricocheted to a dearly bought equilibrium.