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BELOVED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Synonyms:
beloved; dear; dearest; honey; love
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("beloved" is a kind of...):
lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)
Derivation:
beloved (dearly loved)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dearly loved
Synonyms:
beloved; darling; dear
Classified under:
Similar:
loved (held dear)
Derivation:
beloved (a beloved person; used as terms of endearment)
Context examples:
On this night, sleeping under my beloved shears, I was aroused by his footsteps on the deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Rarely have I seen a month of aspects this dazzling for finding love or for growing closer to the beloved in your life.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This one half-hour had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved, had cleared from each the same degree of ignorance, jealousy, or distrust.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She had tears for every room in the house, much more for every beloved inhabitant.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In spite of his strength, however, he was of a slow, orderly, and kindly disposition, so that there was no man more beloved over the whole country side.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Had Miss Bingley known what pain she was then giving her beloved friend, she undoubtedly would have refrained from the hint; but she had merely intended to discompose Elizabeth by bringing forward the idea of a man to whom she believed her partial, to make her betray a sensibility which might injure her in Darcy's opinion, and, perhaps, to remind the latter of all the follies and absurdities by which some part of her family were connected with that corps.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She felt her exile deeply, and for the first time in her life, realized how much she was beloved and petted at home.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then he said to his beloved: “I must now go and leave you, I give you a ring as a remembrance of me. When I am king, I will return and fetch you.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
