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UK
/dˈiəli/
]
[ US /ˈdɪɹɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪɹɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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with affection
she loved him dearly
he treats her affectionately -
in a sincere and heartfelt manner
I would dearly love to know -
at a great cost
this cost him dear
he paid dearly for the food
How To Use dearly In A Sentence
- 12: 19: "Not defending [Douay: 'revenging'] yourselves, my dearly beloved. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- I would dearly like / love to know what he was thinking.
- Grandmother displayed all the warmth, enthusiasm, and flamboyance that she had loved so dearly in her brother Theodore.
- The bottom line is we would dearly love some government assistance there.
- If there have been improvements in the NHS, they have been dearly bought.
- The Baiga dearly loves the common country liquor made from the mahua flower, and this is consumed as largely as funds will permit of at weddings, funerals and other social gatherings, and also if obtainable at other times. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
- Flemings, and plans of bitter enmity against them; and the sight of his murdered father, with that look and tone of the old Dane, fired his spirit, and breaking from his trance of silent awe and grief, he exclaimed, "I see it, and dearly shall the traitor Fleming abye it! The Little Duke
- He thought it without morbidity for he had loved his brother dearly. IN LOVE AND WAR
- Lord Glenvarloch as they left him, “You shall dearly abye this insult — we will meet again.” The Fortunes of Nigel
- The fourth person Eddie meets is the young Marguerite whom he loves dearly.