1987 Toni Morrison novel, later made into an Oprah Winfrey film

Usage examples of beloved.

May not the type be beloved for the sake of its Antitype, even if the very name of All-Father is no guarantee for His paternal pity!

Although the order which recalled him to court was probably accompanied by some intimation of his approaching greatness, he appeals to the people of Athens to witness his tears of undissembled sorrow, when he was reluctantly torn away from his beloved retirement.

This bad news, following upon her hearing from the Archimage that her sister Kadiya had lost her talisman, has filled my beloved wife with foreboding.

Flanked by Boerab and Dirrach, arms and enchantment, Bardel of Lyris was a beloved figure.

When ou-ah beloved country is reduced to such straits, that she must borow from strangers, I cannot think of relieving private indigence.

Prisca, Virgin and Martyr, and after midday, died our beloved Brother, John Bouman, a Priest, who was once our Procurator.

And these men are honourably served with mead and bragget, and are freely beloved by the daughters of the kings of the Island of Britain.

You may assure yourselves that, for my part, I doubt no whit but that all this tyrannical, proud, and brainsick invasion and occupation of my beloved England will yet prove the beginning, though not the end, of the ruin of that kingdom which, most treacherously, even in the midst of treating peace, began this wrongful war.

And Brillant, who since waking had been coming and going in silence, trained to control his delight so as not to awaken anyone, but who was breathing his fe-verishness on every object within his reach, would now rear up against his master, paws on his chest, and try by stretching his back and neck to give that beloved face a good strong licking.

Enough to know that, under his expurgatorial finger, our beloved and bosom friend, William Shakspere, was the first to suffer.

A writer in some strange way knows his own future - his end is in his beginning, as it is in the pages of a horoscope, and the schoolboy Swami, watching the friend with whom he had needlessly quarrelled, vanish into the vast unknown spaces of India, had already experienced a little of what Krishna came to feel as he watched his beloved wife die of typhoid.

But the nation was in no disposition for rebellion: Mary was esteemed and beloved: her marriage was not generally disagreeable to the people: and the interested views of the malecontent lords were so well known, that their pretence of zeal for religion had little influence even on the ignorant populace.

Dominic the Confessor, and before Matins, died our most beloved Brother Theodoric of Kleef.

Only the constraints of time and the reappearance of Meryt, wearing a most unseemly smirk, kept him from embracing his beloved barbarian and proving that fact then and there.

It was a mystical pictorial with a millefleurs background dotted with several of the small animals representing the forest bestiaries so beloved by medievals: birds, rabbits, goats, sheep, squirrels and hounds.