Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
dew .
Etymologies
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dew + -like
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Examples
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The anger against his young bride was quenched, and a dewlike fear grew upon him.
The Story and Song of Black Roderick Dora Sigerson Shorter 1892
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With welcomes dropping dewlike from the weird and wondrous stars?
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But she came home once a year, more lovely and elegant and dainty than ever; and Maggie thought, with truth, that ripening years were softening down her volatility, and that her aunt's dewlike sayings had quietly sunk deep, and fertilized the soil.
The Moorland Cottage Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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