0 much loved -- højt elsket
1 a person very dear to one -- elskede
My beloved left me for another woman.
A courtship riddle is also likely to fall flat if the beloved has her mind on other things.
Again and again media stories predicted that cloning will allow the resurrection of the dead (bereaved parents, for example, might clone a beloved deceased child).
Why talk, my beloved, of all the insults, the misery of life in the world outside?
Marsinah arrives and confesses that she has fallen in love but does not know her beloved's name.
His wife - good, pretty, sensible, and beloved as she had been - was not his second; no, nor his third love.
In the interpersonal domain, a parent may promise a child, or a lover a beloved, to 'be there' always for her or him.
The impossibility of satisfying desire, of filling the lack, of having the ideal beloved, is the fatality to which the empirical self is doomed.
The last two stanzas make the poem's moral explicit : memories of beloved figures have the power to banish depression and loneliness.