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dearness

noun
/ˈdɪə(ɹ)nəs/

Etymology

From dear + -ness.

  1. inherited from *diurijaz✻ — “dear, precious, expensive”
  2. inherited from *diurī✻
  3. inherited from dīere — “of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”
  4. inherited from dere
  5. suffixed as dearness — “dear + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of having great value or price.

    • But brothers pass not into noble friendships upon the stock of that relation: they have fair dispositions and advantages, and are more easy and ready to ferment into the greatest dearnesses, if all things else be answerable.
    • Customers in Padgett Street did not generally, one might infer, express approval on the score of dearness.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA