Definitions

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  • adjective obsolete Full of love.

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  • adjective Evoking a feeling of love.
  • adjective Lovable.
  • adjective Full of love.

Etymologies

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love +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • Farm is likely to become comparatively eminent in the highly important and praiseworthy attempts to render labor of the hands more dignified and noble, and mental education more free and loveful.

    Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

  • To hold fellowship with love is to become loveful and lovely.

    My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

  • Songs of this loveful, soaring kind will lift our souls to heaven's gate.

    Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

  • The voice of the singer is silenced, the heart is stilled, the hand grown cold, and the loveful eyes are closed for evermore.

    The Four Winds of Eirinn 1906

  • So the wretched life, once beautiful and loveful, was now ended, or perhaps borne into some new sphere to begin again its struggle after the highest beauty, the only perfect love.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

  • As all my cash has been expended in buying and keeping up the affair, I am left in a precarious position, out of which I do not see the way without some loveful aid, and to you I venture freely to submit my feelings.

    Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885

  • Oh, what a sweet thing it is to be in the way of loveful grace!

    Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885

  • And as the early falling leaves were blown in gusts across her path, and the misty autumn night began to close in, nature herself seemed to plead in unison with the craving of her heart, which sighed that youth and summer last not always; and that, "be it ever so humble," as the song says, there is no place so bright and beautiful as the fireside of a loveful home.

    Mistress and Maid. A Household Story. 1864

  • So the wretched life, once beautiful and loveful, was now ended, or perhaps born in some new sphere to begin again its struggle after the highest beauty, the only perfect love.

    John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • Men, women, and children, all look up to her loveful blue or wrathful black skies, with a weather-wisdom that keeps growing from the cradle to the grave.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

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