dearness
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Noun[edit]
dearness (usually uncountable, plural dearnesses)
- The quality of having great value or price.
- 1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship:
- 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.
Translations[edit]
quality of having great value