| 1H4 III.ii.123 | [King Henry to Prince Hal] my nearest and dearest enemy [pun: on 'most cherished'] |
| 2H4 IV.v.141 | [Prince Henry to King Henry IV] But for my tears ... / I had forestalled this dear and deep rebuke [also: sense 7] |
| AW IV.v.10 | [Countess to Lafew] the dearest groans of a mother [also: full of love] |
| H5 II.ii.181 | [King Henry to traitors] God of His mercy give / You ... true repentance / Of all your dear offences |
| Ham I.ii.182 | [Hamlet to Horatio, of Gertrude's wedding-day] Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven / Or ever I had seen that day |
| LLL V.ii.786 | [Princess to King] your grace is perjured much, / Full of dear guiltiness [also: sense 4] |
| Oth I.iii.256 | [Desdemona to Duke, of Othello] I a heavy interim shall support / By his dear absence [or: sense 7] |
| R2 I.iii.151 | [King Richard to Mowbray] The sly slow hours shall not determinate / The dateless limit of thy dear exile |
| R3 V.ii.21 | [Blunt to all, of King Richard] He hath no friends but what are friends for fear, / Which in his dearest need will fly from him |
| RJ I.v.118 | [Romeo to himself, of Juliet] Is she a Capulet? / O dear account! |
| Sonn.37.3 | [] I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite |
| Tem II.i.137.2 | [Alonso to Sebastian, responding to Sebastian blaming him for Ferdinand's death] So is the dear'st o'th' loss |
| Tem V.i.146 | [Prospero to Alonso, of having also lost a child] As great to me, as late, and supportable / To make the dear loss |
| Tim V.i.226.1 | [Second Senator to First Senator, of the threat of attack] strain what other mean is left unto us / In our dear peril |
| Tit III.i.255 | [Marcus to Titus, of Lucius] with this dear sight / Struck pale and bloodless |
| TN V.i.68 | [Orsino to Antonio] What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies / Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear, / Hast made thine enemies? |