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lovesome

[ luhv-suhm ]

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adjective

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before 1000; Middle English lovesom, Old English lufsum. See love, -some ¹

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In June, therefore, the garden was a "Lovesome spot" indeed.

For my part, I think Miss Ellinor almost as handsome; not so grand-like, but more lovesome!

I said they were both the fairest ladies of their courts, and that the Queen of England was whiter, but our Queen very lovesome.

I could not look at her as she spoke; I dared not trust myself,—the most thrilling irony pointed her delicate, lovesome tones.

I had always supposed that a mocking-bird, like a garden, was "a lovesome thing, God wot."

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