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lifesome, a.|ˈlaɪfsəm| Also 6 livesome. [f. life n. + -some.] †1. Fraught with life. Obs.
1583T. Watson Centurie of Loue v, O liuesome death, O sweete and pleasant ill. 2. Full of life or animation, lively.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 414/1 Joy is depicted with a lifsome merry aspect. 1797–1809Coleridge Three Graves iii. xii, I wish for your sake I could be More lifesome and more gay. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 11 The speeches of Momus..are very witty and lifesome. Hence ˈlifesomely adv., ˈlifesomeness.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 111 A..plastick spring of lifesomness or animality. 1845Sara Coleridge Mem. & Lett. I. 321 What he does see clearly he expresses with great energy and lifesomeness. 1848― in Q. Rev. Mar. 430 His latest poems..are not so lifesomely evolved from a central idea as those of his morning and noon-day. |