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Dearness

noun
1.
The quality possessed by something with a great price or value.  Synonyms: costliness, preciousness.





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"Dearness" Quotes from Famous Books



... beyond what you see: I know that it must seem to you as if something almost disconcerting had passed over life—as if such a hope must absorb the heart of a mother; but there is a thing you cannot know, and that is the infinite dearness in which this involves you. You would think perhaps that it could not be increased in Maud's case, but it is increased a hundredfold—it is a splendour, a worship, as of divine creative power. Don't be afraid! Don't look forward! ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... you are all sweetness and blue eyes and dearness and dimples," he punished her. Then the banter in his tones ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various


Words linked to "Dearness" :   expensiveness, dear


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