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DEAREST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Synonyms:
beloved; dear; dearest; honey; love
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dearest" is a kind of...):
lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)
Context examples:
But the many whose lives he had ruined, whose nearest and dearest had suffered torture and death at his hands, would not let the matter rest.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But her father began to be very sorrowful, and to weep, saying, Alas, my dearest child!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Investigate various travel packages, for good-fortune Jupiter is in the wings, ready to make your dearest travel dreams come true.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It is the most lovely country, my dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I will prove to you that my love has grown, that it is greater to me than my class and all that is dearest to me.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
My dearest Harriet! cried Emma, putting her hand before her face, and jumping up, you make me more ashamed of myself than I can bear.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She was one of his two dearest—that must support her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
With one who so injured the peace of the dearest of our friends, and the best of men!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world, and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Dora, my own dearest!” said I. “I am a beggar!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
