I love the concept of the word 'endearing' meaning 'to make more dear/expensive', but it is apparently obsolete. Is there any word or short phrase that can replace it?
Sample sentence: "Transport is the 'endearing' factor of the vacation"
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"... the factor that jacks up the price ..."– Hot LicksSep 27, 2015 at 12:31
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1"Transportation is the price hiking factor of the vacation"– ElianSep 27, 2015 at 12:42
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"Vacation expenses are highly sensitive to transport costs".– GraffitoSep 27, 2015 at 21:19
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Make more expensive was the original, now obsolete, meaning of to endear :
- to make dear, esteemed, or beloved: He endeared himself to us with his gentle ways.
- ( Obsolete) - to make costly.
(Random House Kernerman Webster's College)
From vocabulary.com
- In the 1500s, endear meant "increase the value of," though it quickly came to mean "make dear," or perhaps to increase the emotional value, especially of another person.
Endear: (Etymonline)
- 1580s, "to enhance the value of," also "win the affection of," from en- (1) "make, put in" + dear (adj.). Meaning "to make dear," the main modern is from 1640s.
- Regarding your sentence, You can express the concept saying that : transportation is the more expensive part of the vacation, or transportation is what makes the vacation expensive.
Sample sentence: "Transport is the 'endearing' factor of the vacation"
How aobut using "cost-fuelling" or "cost-raising" factor? instead of endearing factor?
I don't think people will have difficulty in understanding what they mean.
You could also turn your sentence the other way around and say:
transportation is the most empoverishing factor of vacationing
I would just say expensive, because that is exactly what it is.
