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dearness

NOUN
  1. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value

How To Use dearness In A Sentence

  • He thought his dearness and devotion to his wife and daughter would be enough. SaraKay Smullens: Are You In Love Or In Need?
  • Exemption from taxes will do little or nothing, the lower orders [end of page #249] are nearly all exempt, but that general dearness, that is the consequence of a general weight of taxes, is severely felt by them, and from that they cannot be exempted. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged
  • The proportion of the dearness which the increased quantity of money brings about in the State will depend on the turn which this money will impart to consumption and circulation.
  • So, dear world, whose dearness I have never truly known, I bid you adieu. Suicide Draft
  • What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
  • But then, proceeding in this way, shall we not arrive at some first principle of friendship or dearness which is not capable of being referred to any other, for the sake of which, as we maintain, all other things are dear, and, having there arrived, we shall stop? Lysis; or Friendship
  • That relatively low-yield process explains, in part, the dearness of the result. Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut Oil
  • Of plentifulness of labour for hire, the cause is dearness of land: cheapness of land is the cause of scarcity of labour for hire.
  • Some of the epitaphs were beautiful, showing that tenderness for the friends who had died, that longing to do them justice, to fully acknowledge their virtues and dearness, which is so touching, and so unmistakable even under the stiff, quaint expressions and formal words which were thought suitable to be chiselled on the stones, so soon to be looked at carelessly by the tearless eyes of strangers. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
  • For my brother, I think he holds you well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your ensuing marriage; — surely suit ill spent and labour ill bestowed. Much Ado About Nothing
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