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Definition of Endears
1. endear [v] - See also: endear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endears
Literary usage of Endears
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curran and his contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"smart, and dexterous and vicious, giving up all that exalts and endears them in
their proper characters of wives and friends, and partners in good and ..."
2. Trial of Aaron Burr for Treason: Printed from the Report Taken in Short Hand by Aaron Burr, David Robertson (1875)
"Freedom of inquiry is indeed our own principle and Jefferson's, which'endears it
to us all. There is a perfect toleration in the United States. ..."
3. Great Truths by Great Authors (1856)
"... without our Hopes, without our Fears, Without the Home that plighted Love
endears, Without the Smile from partial Beauty won, Oh ! what were Man ! ..."
4. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"Oh, Manly, how the name of friend endears the brother ! [Embraces him. Man.
Your words, my lord] will warm me to deserve them. T. Sisler, to your unerring ..."
5. Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best Authors: Or the Best Words of the by John Timbs (1856)
"... truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he
loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. ..."
6. Calendar of Verse by George Saintsbury, William Wordsworth (1893)
"O wilding rose, whom fancy thus endears, I bid your blossoms in my bonnet wave,
Emblem of hope and love through future years ! ..."
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