Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Costly; precious.
- Worthy of being loved; dearly beloved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Precious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
precious
Etymologies
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dear + worth
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Examples
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‘aftercomer’ for descendant; ‘greatdoingly’ for magnificently; ‘to afterthink’ (still in use in Lancashire) for to repent; ‘medeful’, which has given way to meritorious; ‘untellable’ for ineffable; ‘dearworth’ for precious; Chaucer has ‘forword’ for promise; Sir John Cheke
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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3.35.62: A dearworth dame, they thought theyr coomfort gone.
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adj., precious (also derworth; obsolete; from Piers Plowman, a 14th century poem by William Langland)
June 29, 2008