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endears

endears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of endear.

Meaning of endear

Verb

endear (third-person singular simple present endears, present participle endearing, simple past and past participle endeared)

  1. (obsolete) To make (something) more precious or valuable.
  2. (obsolete) To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of.
  3. (obsolete) To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate.
    • Salvianus Massiliensis[…]saith, that amongst French-men, to lie and forsweare is no vice but a manner of speach. He that would endeare [translating encherir] this Testimonie, might say, it is now rather deemed a vertue among them.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  4. To make (someone) dear or precious.
    • By giving candy to the children the man tried to endear himself to them.

Questions about endears

What is endears the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Endears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of endear.

Words near endears in the dictionary

  1. endearingly
  2. endearingness
  3. endearings
  4. endearment
  5. endearments
  6. endears
  7. endeavor
  8. endeavor'd
  9. endeavored
  10. endeavorer
  11. endeavorers

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