Lovesomeness

[f. LOVESOME a. + -NESS.] The quality of being lovesome.

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a. 1000. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 218/34. Delectatio, lustbærnes, vel lufsumnes.

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1550. Bale, Image Both Ch., viii. H vij b. They mixed y^e truth in falshede, they poysoned the waters, they toke awaye the louesomnesse of them.

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a. 1568. Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Club), 657. Weill lasit with luifsumnes.

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1869. Miss Mulock, Woman’s Kingd., II. 19. [She] was not beautiful … but there was a lovesomeness about her.

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