OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 59945

nearest and dearest

/ˈnɪəɹɪst(ə)n ˈdɪəɹɪst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
allegadas • allegados • círculo íntimo • seres queridos
One's closest and most intimate family members, friends, etc.
Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in co…
[W]hile all mourned and honoured the dead, thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration—lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest— […]
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