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dearnesses

dearnesses is the plural of dearness.

Meaning of dearness

Noun

dearness (usually uncountable, plural dearnesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of having great value or price.
    • 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.1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship

Questions about dearnesses

What is dearnesses the plural of?
Dearnesses is the plural of dearness.

Words near dearnesses in the dictionary

  1. dearms
  2. dearn
  3. Dearne
  4. dearned
  5. dearness
  6. dearnesses
  7. dearnful
  8. dearning
  9. Dearnley
  10. Dearnleys
  11. dearnly

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