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endear

ɛnˈdir
WordNet
  1. (v) endear
    make attractive or lovable "This behavior endeared her to me"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Endear
    To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king."
  2. Endear
    To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. endear
    To make dear in feeling; render valued or beloved; attach; bind by ties of affection.
  2. endear
    To engage by attractive qualities; win by endearment.
  3. endear
    To make dear or costly; raise the price of.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Endear
    en-dēr′ to make dear or more dear
Quotations
Samuel Johnson
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Samuel Johnson
Charles Lamb
Presents, I often say, endear absents.
Charles Lamb
Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
Usage in the news

"Jeff, Who Lives at Home": Endearingly Illustrates Man-Child. sfweekly.com

But a weird name can also be kind of endearing, and despite the fact that she was a cold shrew who clearly hated her life, I grew to like her mostly on the basis of her name alone. estword.com

"I chose the name Araboh because the 'oh' is a form of endearment in the Arab world," Tabra says. businessweek.com

His old-fashioned appearance and rapid-fire delivery endeared him to television viewers and captured the imagination of future astronomers who paid tribute to the presenter and prolific author. radiousa.com

Joe has quite an endearing fascination with the moon, and wants to become a scientist to make sure that nothing bad happens to change it. publishersweekly.com

Endearing sex drama The Sessions bares all. vancouversun.com

The endearing reason why Lincoln grew his beard . sojo1049.com

Maybe its star is amazing, and maybe some folks are too quick to use that star to brush aside the less endearing aspects around her. columbiatribune.com

The Terms of Endearment star stepped on stage in New York's famed theatre district to play a radical left-wing inmate who pleads for mercy from her prison warden. b93radio.com

The Ben Stiller romantic comedy is by now a genre unto itself—one premised on pain, humiliation, and the star's endearing masochism. ocweekly.com

That twenty-minute video is one of the most endearingly Italian things that I've ever seen "Wired Italia" do. ired.com

The recent election has set usually endearing people to unthinkable anger. startribune.com

The endearing, geeky gekko from Geico. forbes.com

Independent, indifferent, able to simultaneously frustrate, endear and, as we saw again today, incite fear and embarrassment. kolotv.com

WASHINGTON, Sept 7, 2012 (AFP) – First lady Michelle Obama was enthralling, former president Bill Clinton inspiring and Vice President Joe Biden endearing — but President Barack Obama's speech brought observers down with a bump. sanmarinotribune.com

Usage in scientific papers

Lehmer in 1951 The endearing features of this algorithm is that it is simple, easy to program, portable across computing platforms and fast.
Computers and Liquid State Statistical Mechanics

Usage in literature

She was a woman of great humanity, and distinguished for those generous traits which have endeared Augustine to the heart of the world. "Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV" by John Lord

She is not endeared to the heart of the nation she indirectly ruled. "Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII" by John Lord

Without knowing why, she felt an instinctive repugnance to this stranger, notwithstanding her words of endearment. "Jack's Ward" by Horatio Alger, Jr.

He does not lend himself naturally to such imaginary endearments. "A Florida Sketch-Book" by Bradford Torrey

If they had something to suffer from the world, this served but to endear their humble home. "Paul and Virginia" by Bernadin de Saint-Pierre

The captain, who was resting from his labours in the chart-room, received him with the same air of cold severity which had so endeared Captain Nugent himself to his subordinates. "At Sunwich Port, Complete" by W.W. Jacobs

She took the child, and after kissing her and uttering some words of endearment passed her on to the woman on her left. "Algonquin Indian Tales" by Egerton R. Young

Our heroine was a woman in the best meaning of that endearing, and, we might add, comprehensive word. "The Headsman" by James Fenimore Cooper

This trait endeared Constanze still more to me. "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1" by Rupert Hughes

She alone is fitted for the discharge of the sacred trust of wife and the endearing relation of mother. "Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States," by Henry W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.

Usage in poetry
Alas! when weeks, and months are past,
Shall I that home behold at last,
Which even the dark clouds overcast
Endear?
With these to Jessy much endear'd,
Whom from the world she hid,
Three nurslings more she fondly rear'd,
Two lambkins and a kid.
The conscious nursling lick'd his cheek,
With young endearment sweet,
He kiss'd, and laid it safe, tho' weak,
Before its parent's feet.
With every day some sweetness new,
And night and day and day and night
It was the voice of our delight,
That gentle, low, endearing coo!
'I mark'd the address and the care,
The manner endearing and mild,
Not dreaming those qualities rare
Were to murther the peace of my child:
'My children, so tenderly rear'd,
And pining for want of her care,
Though more by my sorrows endear'd,
Could not rescue my heart from despair.