dearest
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1. dearest - Noun
2. dearest - Adjective
Meaning
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
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A callow man spurns the tender love of an exceptional young woman, destroys his dearest male friend and is condemned to endure a solitary existence mired in regrets.
“Ah, there’s always a football flying around the house,” Aishling grins, pleased to be surrounded by her nearest and dearest.
Adams 2002 p. 149; Gristwood 2007 p. 340 Countess Lettice was also buried there when she died in 1634, alongside the "best and dearest of husbands", as the epitaph, which she commissioned, says.
Bradley Dale Lee, 30, beloved, adored son of Roger Dale Lee and Bennecia Lynn Lee and dearest brother of Nicholas Lee passed away Friday, May 8, 2020.
"As with all missing people – if somebody hasn't been in touch with the people who are nearest and dearest to them, that's peculiar, that's strange, and that certainly concerns us."
Kell, who holds a centuries-old grudge against the elder Connor MacLeod, has slain Connor's dearest loved ones, and he does not follow the traditions of single combat.