Word of the Day:
dearly
What It Means
In a dear or precious manner.
In a dear or expensive manner.
the funeral of our dearly beloved sister
Dearly in Context
“But I take solace in the fact that the public has seen the enormous mountain of evidence proving what Fox did, and Fox paid dearly for it.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English derely, deorliche, from Old English dēorlīċe (“worthily, richly”), equivalent to dear + -ly.
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