Word Finder - dearer

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High in price; expensive.

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The dearer the jewel, the greater the love expressed.

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Loved; lovable.

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Loving, affectionate, heartfelt

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Such dear embrace tenderly comforts even in this dear sorrow.

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Precious to or greatly valued by someone.

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The dearer the giver, the dearer the trinket he brings!

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A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.

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Dear Sir/Madam/Miss, please notice our offices will be closed during the following bank holidays: [...].

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A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.

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My dear friend, I feel better as soon as you come sit beside my sickbed!

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An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior.

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My dear boy, if your grades don't pick up I won't bounce you on but over my knee!

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Noble.

He alone is now dearer to me than everything in the world.

They make a better though a dearer steel.

Not surprising, their wine giftboxes may be dearer than the wine you give.

The price of meat was a little dearer than when she was a girl.

I thought this large for the tool, and wondered if the first-hand rackets were much dearer.

On the other hand, good water was proverbially difficult to obtain at Ravenna - dearer than wine, says Martial, who has two epigrams on the subject.

A regular service of steamers carries oil in bulk from Rangoon to Calcutta, and now Burmese oil competes with the Russian product, which had already driven the dearer American oil from the market (see Burma).

It will simply discourage owners from selling, and the badly devised levy will make land still dearer.

No work has been dearer to Methodists than that of the National Children's Home and Orphanage founded by Dr Bowman Stephenson in 1869.

In spite of his reservations, he regarded "communion with Rome as dearer than life."

Bismarck was their national hero, the anniversary of Sedan their political festival, and approximation to Germany was dearer to them than the maintenance of Austria.