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dearest
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dear \Dear\ (d[=e]r), a. [Compar. Dearer (d[=e]r"[~e]r); superl. Dearest (d[=e]r"[e^]st).] [OE. dere, deore, AS. de['o]re; akin to OS. diuri, D. duur, OHG. tiuri, G. theuer, teuer, Icel. d[=y]rr, Dan. & Sw. dyr. Cf. Darling , Dearth .] Bearing a high ...
Usage examples of dearest.
Had you not chanced to tell me about a month ago that you had no taste for music, I would have told you that I could play the violoncello remarkably well, but if I had mentioned such a thing, I know you well enough to be certain that you would have bought an instrument immediately, and I could not, dearest, find pleasure in anything that would weary you.
Tell me, dearest, whether I could refuse that singular request to the man who was shewing me such compliant kindness?
Tell me, dearest, could you manage to live anywhere as comfortably as you do here?
It is not possible, dearest, that a woman can ever have loved you as I do.
You will see that you are in the wrong, dearest, and that, far from despising you, my dear friend loves you only.
But will you explain to me, dearest, the meaning of the words embroidered upon my garters?
Learn then, dearest, that on the last day of the year, my friend will be at the casino, which he will leave only the next morning.
Yes, dearest, I have a heart, or I should not feel as happy as I feel now.
Yet, dearest friend, it does not prevent my being your Henriette--that Henriette who has in her life been guilty of three escapades, the last of which would have utterly ruined me if it had not been for you, but which I call a delightful error, since it has been the cause of my knowing you.
Such is, dearest love, the sincere confession of my treason, but as a wise lover you will forgive me because it has not done you the slightest harm.
Love will protect us, dearest, and to-morrow your father will receive a letter from my worthy protector.
Besides, dearest, such an invitation cannot be declined unless I wish to gain a most bitter enemy.
I am not jealous, dearest, for I know that you cannot love anyone but me.
That may be the case, dearest browny, but I am delighted to have done such wonders, and to have made such trial of my strength.
For the first time I folded this angelic being in my arms, exclaiming, "Yes, dearest Lucie, yes, thou hast it in thy power to afford the sweetest relief to my devouring pain.