1. Of friendship, etc.: Affectionate, cordial. arch.
1649. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 140. Jonathan’s endeared love to David.
1692. Beverley, Disc. Dr. Crisp, 14. The Warmest and Indearedst Love to him.
a. 1714. Ellwood, Autobiog. (1765), 376. Unto you is the Salutation of my endeared Love.
1812. Gen. Brock, Proclam., 22 July, in Examiner, 4 Oct., 629/1. The endeared relations of its first settlers.
1842. H. Rogers, Introd. Burke’s Wks., I. 3. With the son of the master … Edmund formed a most endeared friendship.
2. Regarded with affection, beloved.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 698. All solicitations of the author to retrieve his endeared volume proved fruitless.
