Definition of Precious

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Precious

Particular; fastidious; overnice; overrefined. Cf. Precieuse, Preciosity.

Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.

Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.

Particular; fastidious; overnice.

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Precious Quotations

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mohandas Gandhi

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Precious Translations

precious in Dutch is zeldzaam
precious in German is kostbar
precious in Italian is prezioso
precious in Portuguese is completamente
precious in Spanish is precioso, valioso

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