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        "From Middle English precious, borrowed from Old French precios (“valuable, costly, precious, beloved, also affected, finical”), from Latin pretiōsus (“of great value, costly, dear, precious”), from pretium (“value, price”); see price."
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              "mean": "Of high value or worth.\n2013 August 16,  Polly Toynbee,  “Britain's booming birthrate”, in  The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 21:People are a good thing, the most precious resource in a rich economy, so the progressive-minded feel. Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.\nThe crown had many precious gemstones.   This building work needs site access, and tell the city council that I don't care about a few lorry tyre ruts across their precious grass verge."
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              "mean": "Regarded with love or tenderness.\nMy precious daughter is to marry."
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              "mean": "(derogatory) Treated with too much reverence.\nHe spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious."
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              "mean": "(informal, derogatory) Blasted; damned.\n1839,  Charles Dickens,  Nicholas Nickleby:It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat."
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              "mean": "(derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.\n2012 May 24,  Nathan Rabin,  “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in  The Onion AV Club:In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man."
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