lovesome
Americanadjective
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inspiring love; lovely; lovable.
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amorous; loving.
Etymology
Origin of lovesome
before 1000; Middle English lovesom, Old English lufsum. See love, -some 1
Example Sentences
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"A Garden," burbled Victorian Poet Thomas Edward Brown, "is a lovesome thing, God wot!"
From Time Magazine Archive
‘If thou had ought eny ill will,’ he saith, ‘Thou shoulde have taken my lyffe, And have saved my children thre, All and my lovesome wyffe.’
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank
All angels' life is to look upon Thy face, for Thy cheer is so marvellously lovesome and pleasant to look upon....
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
Thou wast fair, thou wast bonnie, my Marion, And lovesome thy rising breast-bane; The dew sat in gems ower thy ringlets, By the thorn when we were alane.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Then there fell the great yearning upon me, that never yet went into words; While lovesome and moansome thereon spake and falter'd the dove to the dove.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean
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