Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
dear . - noun See
deer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete variant of
dere , v. t. & n.
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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
dear .
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Examples
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851: My name deare Saint, is hatefull to my selfe,
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Wherefore sell you this fish so deare, which is not worth a halfepenny?
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Wherefore sell you this fish so deare, which is not worth a halfepenny?
The Golden Asse 1566
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The Harvard Library owns a seventeenth-century English volume bearing the inscription The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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In 1664, Dr. Luke Barber, a Maryland physician, who faced a heavy suit for damages, transferred all of his property to two men “in trust to the only use and behoofe” of his “most deare … Wife Elizabeth … and her heyres for ever.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In 1664, Dr. Luke Barber, a Maryland physician, who faced a heavy suit for damages, transferred all of his property to two men “in trust to the only use and behoofe” of his “most deare … Wife Elizabeth … and her heyres for ever.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In 1664, Dr. Luke Barber, a Maryland physician, who faced a heavy suit for damages, transferred all of his property to two men “in trust to the only use and behoofe” of his “most deare … Wife Elizabeth … and her heyres for ever.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Yet thou, false Squire, his fault shalt deare aby,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Yet thou, false Squire, his fault shalt deare aby,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Alas deare Spinelloccio (quoth she) what shall we do?
The Decameron 2004
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