Obs. [f. LIVELY a. + -HOOD.] = LIVELINESS in various senses.
1566. Painter, Pal. Pleas., I. 106. How much his [Love’s] assaultes can debilitate the livelihoode of the bodies and spirites of men.
1593. Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees), 29. The fairness of the wall, the staitlynes of the pictures and the lyvelyhoode of the paynting.
1594. J. King, Funeral Serm., in Jonas (1618), 673. His spirit departeth; not only his strength, his health, his agility, his liuelihood; but his breath.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, I. i. 58. The tirrany of her sorrowes takes all liuelihood from her cheeke.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 638. The red [wines] which are not yet come to their liuelyhood and maturitie.
1619. W. Sclater, Exp. 1 Thess. (1630), 13. They are actions operatiue, full of liulihood and efficacy.
1640. C. Harvey, Synagogue (1647), 37. Thy Circumcision writ thy death in blood, Baptisme in water seales my livelyhood.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 93. In the Law-maker and the Law-dispenser, doing their duties, consists the life and livelihood of any State.
1641. Relat. Answ. Earl Strafford, 3. The Lieutenant … spake … with such a measure of Eloquence and Lively-hood, that his very Enemies were affected with it.
1646. J. Gregory, Notes & Observ. (1650), 32. The first judged of the Livleyhood and duration … of the City.
