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endearment |
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endearment Noun an affectionate word or phrase
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Translationsterm of endearment → terme m d'affection term of endearment → vezzeggiativo, parola affettuosa |
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This last endearment was tender as in youth, as in times when hearts were warm - life happy. She had been wont to call me her Virginian as a term of endearment, for she knew that I loved the sound of that beautiful name, made a thousand times more beautiful and hallowed by her dear lips, and as I heard it again after all those long years my eyes became dimmed with tears and my voice choked with emotion. She could not admit even to herself that she loved him, and yet she had permitted him to apply to her that term of endearment and possession to which a Barsoomian maid should turn deaf ears when voiced by other lips than those of her husband or fiance--"my princess. |
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