Definition of "well-beloved" []

• Greatly beloved; very dear. Sometimes used substantively.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Of course, for a bookish person, there is no place like home when the bookshelf is comfortably stocked, and you are blessed with a soft chair, a warm fire, a bright lamp over your shoulder, a cool drink at your elbow, and a few uninterrupted hours to open the covers of some well-beloved book of gold, and soar to distant realms whose stars are not like ours, far from the fields we know."
• "The letters are from the Queen explaining in pitiless detail why she had picked her "right, trusty and well-beloved counsellor John Leslie Prescott" for the job."
• "At least, this format is well-beloved in fanfiction, and I think an audience trained on serial TV with long character arcs may be more receptive to it."