Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Greatly beloved.
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Examples
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Still holding the dear-loved child in my arms, I asked my heart if these transports were not delusion.
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But could not banish from his thoughts his dear-loved mountain hame.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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If he should kill me or do me some bodily hurt, he feared greatly lest his dear-loved niece should be made to suffer for it among my kinsfolk.
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That so her dear-loved husband/perforce from life must part,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Here is the House enclosing, the dear-loved dwelling place;
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His dear-loved brother -- lagged and stayed; and then
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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And ye, in those glad realms, prepare to meet full soon your dear-loved boy.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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Glimmered our dear-loved home, alas! no longer ours!
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Leaves blue Jumna's sacred waters for his Dwarka's dear-loved shore,
Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878
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The poor boy's thoughts were very, very bitter as he laid his head that night on his restless pillow, remembered what an ungovernable fool he had been, and dreamt of his happy and dear-loved home.
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