Lexic.us

Definition of Beloved

1. Noun. A beloved person; used as terms of endearment.

Definition of Beloved

1. p. p. & a. Greatly loved; dear to the heart.

2. n. One greatly loved.

Definition of Beloved

1. Adjective. loved ¹

2. Noun. someone who is loved; something that is loved ¹

3. Adjective. (poetic) (alternative form of beloved) ¹

4. Noun. (poetic) (alternative form of beloved) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beloved

1. one who is loved [n -S]

Medical Definition of Beloved

1. Greatly loved; dear to the heart. "Antony, so well beloved of Caesar." (Shak) "This is my beloved Son." (Matt. Iii. 17) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beloved

Literary usage of Beloved

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Marguerite Wilkinson A WOMAN'S beloved A Psalm To what shall a woman liken her ... Even thus should a woman's beloved shelter her in time of anguish. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
""Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved sister Hannah, the sum of £50, proclamation money, to be paid \vhen she is of age. "Item, I give and bequeath ..."

3. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1838)
"Go, tell them also of those dainty things, That pilgrimage unto the Pilgrims brings : Let them acquainted be too, how they are beloved of their King, ..."

4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"Trusting tbat now you know our Mind and w'll. And whereas by sundry our Letten, the contrary neglected and little set by: TRUSTY and Well-beloved, ..."

5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"Why art thou banished from our hearth and hall, Thou who art welcomed and beloved by all ? Was thy existence then too fanciful For our life's common light, ..."

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