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Endeared

Endear \En*dear"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endeared; p. pr. & vb. n. Endearing.]

  1. To make dear or beloved. ``To be endeared to a king.''
    --Shak.

  2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. [R.]
    --King James I. (1618).

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endeared

vb. (en-past of: endear)

Usage examples of "endeared".

If the emperor forgave his enemies, he must cordially embrace a friend whose victories were alone remembered, and who was endeared to his prince by the recent circumstances of their common danger.

His second marriage with Malasontha, the granddaughter of Theodoric endeared Germanus to the Goths themselves.

Their popular election endeared them to the Romans: the public and private indigence was relieved by their ample revenue.

He stepped down, with an awkwardness that now endeared her last vision of him.

And what he saw in that instant of perception only endeared her to him more.

He'd planned to put it into zinnias, which were not Dorotea's favorite flower, but Amariyah had endeared herself to him by naming every single shrub, tree, and greening plant by their Latin names.

His eyes were yellow, like Afra’s, but that wasn't what endeared him to the boy as much as his air of arrogant independence did.

Their discourse was enriched by elegant literature, and endeared by mutual regard.

It was a spot formed for solitary delight, inspiring that soothing tenderness so dear to the feeling mind, and which calls back to memory the images of passed regret, softened by distance and endeared by frequent recollection.

The attachment which Theodore had testified towards Adeline even endeared him to Louis, when he had recovered from the first shock of disappointment, and that conquest over jealousy which originated in principle, and was pursued with difficulty, became afterwards his pride and his glory.

He made none of the contacts at Lackland that had endeared him to the men at Scott.

It was five years since they had enjoyed the hospitalities of that endeared home of other days.

It tore her from scenes endeared by association with all her pleasures, and dragged her away into strange lands, of which, from her childhood, she had heard nought but tales of horror.