dearly vs very much

dearly

adv
  • In a dear or precious manner. 

  • In a dear or expensive manner. 

  • At great expense. 

very much

adv
  • Indeed. 

  • Extremely. (Used to modify a verb. To modify an adjective or an adverb, very is used.) 

How often have the words dearly and very much occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )