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dearsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From dear + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by dearness; precious; costly
   • Standing, a dearsome almond tree [...] 2014, Rita Joyce Singh, Not Done with Loving Yet:
   • See, if you don't cut that rope, inside o' three moons your dearsome fam'ly be dead, I vow it! 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

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