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dearling

noun

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  1. Obsolete form of darling .

    • Thoſe daintie parts, the dearlings of delight, / Which mote not be prophan'd of common eyes, […]
    • […] Auguſtius Cæſar in his very entrance into affaires, vvhen he vvas a dearling of the Senate, yet in his haranges to the people, vvould ſvveare Ita parentis honores conſequi liceat, (vvhich vvas no leſſe then the Tyranny,) […]
    • And tis a common obſervation in Familites, that the moſt diſcountenanc'd child oft makes better proof, then the dearling.

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