beloved

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  1. adjective Dearly loved.

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  • But they departed four years ago and this is of no consequence and my beloved is about to die for me Hear this: the Council did not come from a far land, nor did they return there. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
  • Planning a romantic date with your beloved is a very tough task. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • As a lover you feel as though you and your beloved are the most intensely particular people in the world - "Never again a love like this," as Roddy Lumdsen says. —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • I am for my beloved - and then - my beloved is for me. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
  • For the beloved is the truly beautiful, delicate, and perfect and blest; but the principle of love is of another nature, and is such as I have described I said, "O thou strange woman, thou sayest well, and now, assuming Love to be such as you say, what is the use of him?" —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
 

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  1. Middle English biloved, past participle of beloven, to love : bi-, be- + loven, to love; see love.

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  1. from Middle English beloved, beluved, biluved, past participle: see love.
 

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/bəˈləvɛd/
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