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  • noun The state or condition of being beloved.

Etymologies

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beloved +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • A sign of her enduring belovedness in France: the melancholy style for which she was known made it obvious that lyrics of one of her songs should be recited at a solemn event of national significance, the collective funeral for unclaimed victims of the summer 2003 extreme heat wave that killed thousands in France:

    Barbara (Monique Andree Serf). 2009

  • It reminds me of the homely belovedness of my own polling place, PS 282 in Brooklyn, and the simple/complicated goodness/absurdity of American democracy.

    Archive 2008-11-07 Book Nerd 2008

  • It reminds me of the homely belovedness of my own polling place, PS 282 in Brooklyn, and the simple/complicated goodness/absurdity of American democracy.

    Afterglow, and poetry Book Nerd 2008

  • So, like other loved ones, I hope you will rest content in your belovedness without requiring overt evidence thereof, and as I find time to surface for air I will try to post a picture here, a comment there ... and hope that things let up a little soon so I can resume our correspondence.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Pat 2007

  • So, like other loved ones, I hope you will rest content in your belovedness without requiring overt evidence thereof, and as I find time to surface for air I will try to post a picture here, a comment there ... and hope that things let up a little soon so I can resume our correspondence.

    cloudy monday #11 Pat 2007

  • Christians cannot pass on their belovedness in God until they appropriate it for themselves.

    Biblical Recorder 2009

  • In each of Jesus 'recorded encounters with the needy, the rejected, the outcast He exuded toward them the belovedness He knew from the Father's affirmation of Himself at His baptism: the leper, the ridiculous tax collector climbing a tree, the woman at Jacob's well, the adultress whom others would stone.

    Biblical Recorder 2009

  • In each of Jesus 'recorded encounters with the needy, the rejected, the outcast He exuded toward them the belovedness He knew from the Father's affirmation of Himself at His baptism: the leper, the ridiculous tax collector climbing a tree, the woman at Jacob's well, the adultress whom others would stone.

    Biblical Recorder 2009

  • Christians cannot pass on their belovedness in God until they appropriate it for themselves.

    Biblical Recorder 2009

  • In each of Jesus 'recorded encounters with the needy, the rejected, the outcast He exuded toward them the belovedness He knew from the Father's affirmation of Himself at His baptism: the leper, the ridiculous tax collector climbing a tree, the woman at Jacob's well, the adultress whom others would stone.

    Biblical Recorder 2009

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