endeared

Adjective

endeared (comparative more endeared, superlative most endeared)

1. (obsolete) Having become treasured or precious; beloved.
   • O, how should we prize the friendship of that most endeared Redeemer, who laid down his life not for his friends, but for his enemies, and of enemies to make them friends.1817, Robert Stevenson, Scripture portraits, or biographical memoirs of the most distinguished characters recorded in the Old Testament.
   • As being One in the contemplation of whom the soul finds all its demands of perfection answered, and in whom it reposes satisfied with the vision; whose favour it seeks after and enjoys as the chief good; to serve whom it regards its highest honour; to advance the interests of whose kingdom engages...1861, William Anderson, Treatise on Regeneration, page 31
2. Characterized by affection; loving.
   • While convalescent he wrote a long letter to an old fellow-student, between whom and himself there appears to have subsisted a very endeared friendship.1827, William Orme, Memoirs, including letters and select remains, of John Urquhart, page 118
   • But these noisy, dirty Subways are faster, more frequent, and more efficient than the London Underground, and I'm very endeared to their ear-shattering clatters and their functional stations thick with the smell of fresh-cooked doughnuts.2010, Michael Palin, The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979