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II of things

3. Of high estimation, of great worth or value, precious, valuable [888]

B) precious in import or significance, important (1592)

4. Of a high price, high-priced, absolutely or relatively; costly, expensive (1044)

DEAR adverb

Forms : See DEAR adj.

1. At a high price; at great cost (usually with such words as buy, sell, cost, pay) (1000)

2. = dearly adverb 2 (1314)

DEARLY adverb

[DEAR adj. + Ly2]

1. In a precious, worthy or excellent manner; worthily, choicely, finely, richly (1000)

2. As one who is held dear; with feelings of tender affection (not used only with the verbs to love for its equivalents (1205)

DEEP adjective

1 diop, 2-3 deop, 2-5 dep, 4-6 depe, 5-7 deepe, 4 - deep

I literal senses

1 having great or considerable extension downward (854)

2 having great or considerable extension inward from the surface or exterior or backward from the front (1000)

3 having a (specified) dimension downward (1000)

4 of physical actions: extending to or coming from a depth (1483)

I I figurative senses

5 hard to fathom or get to the bottom of; penetrating far into a subject, profound (1000)

6 as an attribute of moral qualities or of actions in which sinking or abasement is present

DEEP adverb

1 diope, 3 diep, 3-6 depe, 4 dep, 5-7 deepe, 6 - deep

1 literal senses

Deeply; to,at,or with a great or specified depth; far down

2 Figurative sense

Deeply (in various figurative senses) profoundly, intensely, earnestly, heavily, etc.

As qualifying an adjective "deep" is obsolete (excluding with words of color as deep-red stain, where deep is historically an adjective; qualifying a verb, it is generally superseded in prose by deeply, although still used in particular cases (1000)