Definition of "deare" [deare]

• Obsolete spelling of dear. (adjective)

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• "851: My name deare Saint, is hatefull to my selfe,"
• "Wherefore sell you this fish so deare, which is not worth a halfepenny?"
• "The Harvard Library owns a seventeenth-century English volume bearing the inscription The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632."