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单词 nearest and dearest
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nearest and dearest
b. nearest and dearest: very closely related or intimate; occasionally also near and dear. Now frequently as n.: one's closest relatives and friends considered together (with plural agreement). Cf. near adv.2 8, 17.
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the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > love between kinsmen > closest or most beloved relatives and friends
nearest and dearest1598
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > close relations
one's (own) fleshc1000
flesh and blood1393
nearest and dearest1598
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 123 Why Harry do I tell thee of my foes, Which art my nearest and dearest enemy? View more context for this quotation
1610 J. Chamberlain Let. 23 Jan. (1939) I. 296 The neerest and deerest frends he hath know not what to guesse of this humor.
1654 R. Loveday tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Hymen's Præludia: 2nd Pt. ii. 124 The nearest and dearest friends I had.
1781 G. Crabbe Let. Feb.–Mar. in Sel. Lett. & Jrnls. (1985) i. 5 My Existence is a Pain to me, & every one near & dear to me are distress'd in my Distresses.
1781 T. Pasley Jrnl. 13 Mar. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 123 Early I bid adieu to my nearest and dearest connections.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 324 This is what I little expected to have seen of you, that ye suld give rein to your sinful passions against your nearest and your dearest.
1822 T. Creevey Let. 23 Dec. in J. Gore Creevey Papers (1963) xi. 186 Brougham arrived here on Saturday, on his way..to his nearest and dearest.
1839 C. Dickens Let. 21 Jan. (1965) I. 493 For those who are nearest and dearest to me I can realise little more than a genteel subsistence.
1926 F. M. Ford Man could stand Up i. ii. 38 Look how you let in your nearest and dearest—those who have to sympathise with you.
1959 J. Burke Echo of Barbara ix. 92 One never does know much about one's nearest and dearest.
1975 ‘C. Aird’ Slight Mourning iv. 42 It's always family or friends who do you in... Nearest and dearest, that's who it'll be.
1988 M. Moorcock Mother London ii. 121 Black is for one's nearest and dearest.
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