Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "well-beloved".
But thou friend, thou well-beloved, fain were I to do thy will that thou mightest be the happier.
Ostensibly in the name of a loyal freedman, praising his master in conventional terms, it ran: To the shades of the departed, Gnaeus Rubirius Metellus, son of Tiberius, quaestor, legate, holder of three priesthoods, member of the centumviral court, aged fifty-seven: Julius Alexander, freedman, land agent, set this up to the kindest of patrons And Gnaeus Metellus Negrinus, to one who was well-beloved of him.
But the cunning fox Diabolus, fearing that the people, after this sight, should, on a sudden summons, open the gates to the captains, came down with all haste from the castle, and made them retire into the body of the town, who, when he had them there, made this lying and deceivable speech unto them: ‘Gentlemen,’ quoth he, ‘although you are my trusty and well-beloved friends, yet I cannot but a little chide you for your late uncircumspect action, in going out to gaze on that great and mighty force that but yesterday sat down before, and have now entrenched themselves in order to the maintaining of a siege against the famous town of Mansoul.
From the quarter rail Mademoiselle d'Ogeron looked down with glowing eyes in breathless wonder upon her well-beloved hero.
India will teach our enchanted climates the marvellous fables of Vishnu, and we shall place upon the still bleeding forehead of our well-beloved Christ the triple crown of pearls of the mystical Trimurti.