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- verb Present participle of
indear .
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Examples
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You are pathetic, and I mean that in the most sincere and indearing way.
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Was I in the right in parting in the most indearing manner with a Man who wrote this of me, and whom I now bewail as dearly?
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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One of those albums you'd like to love more than you actually do, Pharoah Sanders '"Shukuru" is noteworthy as being the album that reunited Sanders with vocalist Leon Thomas, who sang on some of Sanders' most indearing and powerful compositions -- among them the legendary "The Creator Has a Masterplan".
Fulldls.com 2009
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In this animated apostrophe, after inveighing 'against the perfidy and despotism of tiie Freuch, he pays a due tribute of applause' .o the mild admin - istration of tiie ancient vepublic, the remembrance of which the pressure of French despotism render - ed more 'indearing.
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Behold a mother bidding a final farewell to the place of her nativity, to the spot where the light of heaven first fell upon her infant eyes, what tender emotions rush upon her memory, scenes of other days cluster around her, and that which is indearing, the tombs of her ancestors; view her standing upon the last green hill pressing her little one to her bosom, covering its little face with her burning tears; she moves on a few steps, and then for the last time bids her long and much loved home farewell forever, and often in her migrations to the far west, does scenes of the past crowd upon her memory.
A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of the Distinguished Chief Okah Tubbee Alias, Wm. Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians Lewis Leonidas 1848
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