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- adjective
superlative form oflief : mostlief .
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Examples
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Gudrun answers, “Tomorn will I ask her concerning this, who is the liefest to her of all men for a husband.”
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And be to them reunion cause, thou only liefest lord!
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I brought the chess board and my liefest lover plays me
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Thief us the night, steal we the air, shawl thiner liefest, mine!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Here are the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde, her chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af liefest pose, arride the winnerful wonders off, the winner-ful wonnerful wanders off, 3 with hedges of ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe, are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you pleathes, 4 for the blithehaired daughter of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Why, my liefest and dearest lord, you, a young and handsome fellow, with high birth, a title, and the name of an estate, so well received by the king at your first starting, as makes your further progress scarce matter of doubt, if you know how to improve it — for the king has already said you are a
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Gawaine, I thank you, for ye have left me the youngest and the fairest, and she is most liefest to me.
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As for that, said King Anguish, ye shall have her with you to do with her what it please you; that is for to say if that ye list to wed her yourself, that is me liefest, and if ye will give her unto King Mark, your uncle, that is in your choice.
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WELL be ye found, said the knight to Palomides, for of all knights that be alive, except three, I had liefest have you.
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For those who would liefest dwell near nonhumans, a whole new race of them was coming.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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