dearer

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A form of dear — High in price; expensive.

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

adjective
  1. comparativecomparative form of dear: more dear

    Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, / A dearer birth than this his love had brought, / To march in ranks of better equipage

    1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 32”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
adverb
  1. comparativecomparative form of dearly: more dearly

    Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer

    1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 115”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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