lovely

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  1. adjective Full of love; loving.
  2. adjective Inspiring love or affection.
  3. adjective Having beauty that appeals to the emotions as well as to the eye. See Synonyms at beautiful.
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  • Even she -- lovely, sensitive girl --tossed living phib eggs on the fire and wondered why each year the swamps held fewer phibs. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
  • But Chameleon-lovely was a figure to cloud man's mind and excite his-never mind! —  The Source of Magic
  • The reader will recall his lovely poem, “My Aviary,” which deals with the winged life of that pleasant prospect. —  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Betsy Thoughtless is not even the innocent, lovely, and pliable girl typified in Fielding's Sophia Western. —  The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
  • And English young ladies were perfectly lovely, any way. —  My Flirtations
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lovely:   loveliest
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  1. from Middle English lovely, luvelich, lufli, from Anglo-Saxon luflīc, lovely, from lufu, love: see love, n., and -ly. The Anglo-Saxon leóflīc, dear, pleasant (= Old Saxon lioflīk, lioblīk = OFries. liaflik, NFries. ljeaflyck = Dutch liefelijk = Old High German liublīh, liuplīh, Middle High German lieplich, German lieblich, lovely, = Danish Swedish liflig, pleasant, = Gothic (Moesogothic) liubaleiks, lovely), is a different word, from leóf, English lief, dear, + -līc, English -ly.
  2. from Middle English lovely, luveliche, luflych, from Anglo-Saxon luflīce, lovely, from luflīc, adjective, lovely: see lovely, a.
  3. from Middle English lovely, praiseworthy; from love + -ly.
 

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