Word Meanings - DEARLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly. 2. At a high rate or price; grievously. He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden. 3. Exquisitely. Shak.

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• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• MISTRESS
  magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman!
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• EARNESTLY
  In an earnest manner.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• THRONELESS
  Having no throne.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• AFFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
• EXQUISITELY
  In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.
• THRONE
  A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Milton. Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing. Young. (more info) 1. A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince,
• AFFECTIONATENESS
  The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
• MISTRESSSHIP
  1. Female rule or dominion. 2. Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun. Massinger.
• AFFECTIONATELY
  With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNTHRONE
  To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.
• DISTHRONE
  To dethrone.
• DETHRONEMENT
  Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
• DETHRONER
  One who dethrones.
• DETHRONE
  To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.