endeared

English

Adjective

endeared (comparative more endeared, superlative most endeared)

1. (obsolete) Having become treasured or precious; beloved.
   • 1817, Robert Stevenson, Scripture portraits, or biographical memoirs of the most distinguished characters recorded in the Old Testament.:

     O, how should we prize the friendship of that most endeared Redeemer, who laid down his life not for his friends, but for his enemies, and of enemies to make them friends.

   • 1861, William Anderson, Treatise on Regeneration, page 31:

     As being One in the contemplation of whom the soul finds all its demands of perfection answered, and in whom it reposes satisfied with the vision; whose favour it seeks after and enjoys as the chief good; to serve whom it regards its highest honour; to advance the interests of whose kingdom engages its warmest patriotism; in whose family it finds its most endeared kindred; and whose house is its longed-for home.

   • 1915, Michael Adler, Prayer Book for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers:

     I am happy to know that the Prayer Book has become very endeared to my gallant comrades in H. M. Forces, both on sea and on land, who are doing their duty so well for King and Country.

2. Characterized by affection; loving.
   • 1827, William Orme, Memoirs, including letters and select remains, of John Urquhart, page 118:

     While convalescent he wrote a long letter to an old fellow-student, between whom and himself there appears to have subsisted a very endeared friendship.

   • 2010, Michael Palin, The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979:

     But these noisy, dirty Subways are faster, more frequent, and more efficient than the London Underground, and I'm very endeared to their ear-shattering clatters and their functional stations thick with the smell of fresh-cooked doughnuts.

   • 2017, William Donald Harvey, The Adventures of Sammie: In Search of the Secrets of Life, page 7:

     Well, I felt very endeared to little Sammie and her adventurous curiosity

Derived terms

• endearedly
• endearedness
• unendeared

 

Verb

endeared

1. simple past and past participle of endear

Anagrams

• deadener