dearness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of having great value or price.

   But brothers pass not into noble friendships upon the stock of that relation: they have fair dispositions and advantages, and are more easy and ready to ferment into the greatest dearnesses, if all things else be answerable.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality possessed by something with a great price or value

From dear + -ness.

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