a. Obs. [f. FRIEND (? sb. or a.) + -SOME.] Friendly, kindly, benign.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, lxviii. 20 [lxix. 16].

        Here me, lauerd, witterli,
For frendsome es þi merci.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, I. 88.

        Thai trowyt that he, as gud nychtbur,
And as freyndsome compositur,
Wald hawe iugyt in lawte.

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  Hence † Friendsomeness.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, lxiv. 12 [lxv. 11].

        Blisse saltou þe croune þat es
Of yhere of his frendsomnes.
    Ibid., lxxxiv. 13 [lxxxv. 12].
Sothlike frendsomnes lauerd giue sal,
And þe erthe sal giue his fruyt with-al.

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