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▪ I. lovable, loveable, a.1|ˈlʌvəb(ə)l|
Forms: 4–5 lufabyll(e, 5 luffable, luffeabille, 5, 9 loveable, 9 lovable.
[f. love v.1 + -able.]
Deserving of being loved; amiable; attractive, pleasing.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. (1866) 2 Ihesu, desederabill es thi name, lufabyll and comfortabyll. c1400Destr. Troy 3097 Ne no lede to hir lykyng halfe so luff-able. 1483Cath. Angl. 222/2 Lufabylle (MS. A. Luffeabille); amabilis. 1570Levins Manip. 3/2 Loueable, amabilis. 1611Cotgr., Aimable,..loueable. 1814M. Edgeworth Patronage v, ‘She is..very loveable—that is the exact word’. ‘I fear it is not English’, said Miss Hauton. 1823Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) II. xix. 171 Teviotdale is a very loveable district. 1870H. Smart Race for Wife ii, He had married..a sweet, lovable girl. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §10. 585 The wide sympathy with all that is human which is so loveable in Chaucer and Shakspere. 1898L. Stephen Stud. Biogr. II. i. 1 The man..who could display such reverent and loyal affection was certainly lovable.
†b. Friendly. Obs. rare—1.
1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 280 That the loveable cantons shal be guarantees of the treaty.
▪ II. † lovable, a.2 Obs.
Forms: 4, 6 lovabil(l, 5 lovabile, 6 -byll, 4–7 lovable, 5–6 loveable.
[f. love v.2 + -able.
Not distinguishable with certainty from the adopted form of the synonymous but unconnected F. louable lowable. The examples with u or v are all placed here, though it is possible that in some of them the letter is a vowel.]
Praiseworthy, laudable.
a1340Hampole Psalter Cant. 505 Wha is thi like..aghful and louabil and doand wondirs. 1388Wyclif Bible IV. 439 (Ep. Laodiceans) And whiche been hool, and sooth, and chast, and rightwijs, and louable, do ȝe. c1400Destr. Troy 7062 Hit is lelly not louable in no lede oute, Of no wise mon to wale. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 53 It ys growyng of vertuz & rote of alle goodes loueables & worschipfull. 1496Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 59 For vphaldin of the auld louable consuetud..and plesour of this burgh. 1501Ibid. 70 Conforming to the alde lovabile rite. 1513Douglas æneis x. v. 169 The worthy actis of ȝour eldaris bygane, Thar lovabyll fame, and ȝour awyn renowne. 1579in Home MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm., 1902) 50 Lett it rest..quhill the lovable custum be verifiit be the maist skilfull Borderers of baith the realmes. 1609in E. Burt's Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) II. 242 The louable Acts of Parliament of this realme. |