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Examples
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On ICHC, we all say “sqeeee!” for teh one so belov-ed
Ohaiena. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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On ICHC, we all say “sqeeee!” for teh one so belov-ed
no skwish! i be gud! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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He was, by then, to me the best-belovéd of all my clerical kinsmen.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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See, lounging through the shops and fields of The States, me, well-belovd, close-held by day and night;
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He stands in the room of the old tavernthe well-belovd soldiers all pass through,
Sleepers, The 1900
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The final _ed_ of past tenses and past participles was formerly pronounced as a distinct syllable, thus: _clos-ed_, _belov-ed_, and this pronunciation continued in common use in poetry long after it was discontinued in prose.
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Like as of myrrh a bundle is my well-belov'd to be,
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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That Gudrun well-belovèd of the days that once have been;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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And their well-belovèd voices awake the hoped-for sound,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Brought war from the outer ocean to their fish-belovèd stream?
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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