dearly

Adverb

(comparative more dearly, superlative most dearly)

in a dear manner

Origin

dear +‎ -ly

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I love you very dearly because you are my friend.
Experience with epidemics, dearly bought in the past, has shown that one fruitful cause is the laying open to the inroads of some Fungus or insect, hitherto leading a quiet endemic life in the fields and forests, large tracts of its special food, along which it may range rampant without check to its dispersal, nutrition and reproduction.
I think of them every day and I love them dearly in my heart.
What it could do was seen too dearly from the case of Hesse-Cassel.
A curse on you who disrupt the master's plans; you will pay dearly when the time of reckoning finally arrives!

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