Crossword clues for dearer
dearer
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.]
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Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
--Shak. Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
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Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. ``Hear me, dear lady.''
--Shak.Neither count I my life dear unto myself.
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And the last joy was dearer than the rest. --Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. --Tennyson. 4. Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
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Of agreeable things and interests.
[I'll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.
--Shak.His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall.
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Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
In our dear peril.
--Shak.Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day.
--Shak.
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Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: dear) adv. (en-comparative of dearly POS=adverb)
Usage examples of "dearer".
The child to be born at Randall's must be a tie there even dearer than herself.
And as he regarded it in a nearer and a dearer light as a chignon that might possibly become his own, as a burden which in one sense he might himself be called upon to bear, as a domestic utensil of which he himself might be called upon to inspect, and, perhaps, to aid the shifting on and the shifting off, he did begin to think that that side of the Scylla gulf ought to be avoided if possible.