dearsome
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dearsome (comparative more dearsome, superlative most dearsome)
- Characterised or marked by dearness; precious; costly
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- See, if you don't cut that rope, inside o' three moons your dearsome fam'ly be dead, I vow it!
- 2014, Rita Joyce Singh, Not Done with Loving Yet:
- Standing, a dearsome almond tree [...]