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praecarus

praecarus [ML] , very dear or beloved (usu. as superl.); b (in epistolary address). c (as sb.) very dear or beloved person. 1275 temporibus ‥ prekarissimi genitoris nostri RGasc II 9a; 1346 nostro precarus [v. l. nostris preclarus] regi fit Sanctus Omarus; / sanctus preclarus proprie genti fit amarus Pol. Poems II 40; 1529 in magistrum G. C. ‥ canonicum et prebendarium prebende de B. ‥ et serenissimo regi nostro precharum et predilectum Reg. Heref. 219.  b 1281 obsecramus ‥, domine precharissime, ut ‥ Conc. II 63b; 1339 tuque, ~issime fili (Lit. Papae) Wals. HA I 218; c1380 amice ~issime FormOx 315; c1410 avuncule ~issime FormOx 426; 1440 confrater in Christo ~issime Pri. Cold. 114.  c pius et misericors Deus, volens experiri pacienciam regis nostri ‥, tetigit eum in morte unius de amantissimis et ~issimis suis G. Hen. V 7.

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