| 释义 |
lovesome, a. Now arch. or dial.|ˈlʌvsəm|
Forms: 1–6 lufsum, 3 luffsumm, 3–5 lussum, 3 luvesum, 4 luffsum, lufsoum, lufsome, lussom, lossum, lossom, loovesum, 4–5 lofsom, lufsom, lovesum, 4–6 lovesom, 6 loveseme, lusum, ? luxom(e, lufesum, lufesome, Sc. luifsum, 5– lovesome.
[OE. lufsum, f. luf-u love n.1: see -some. (The contracted forms lussom, lossom, -um, seem to occur only in sense 2.)]
1. Worthy of love; having qualities that inspire love; lovable.
a1000Crist 913 (Gr.) Lufsum and liþe leofum monnum to sceawianne þone scynan wlite. c1200Ormin 3583 Daviþess name..itt uss tacneþþ stang wiþþ hannd, & luffsumm onn to lokenn. a1225Juliana 13 Ihesu crist..þat ich on leue & luuie as leoflukest & lufsumest lauerd. c1325Deo Gratias 29 in E.E.P. (1862) 125 A louesum buirde he lihte with-Inne Þe worþiest þat euer was. 1430Hymns Virg. 29 Hise louesum lijf þat alle men siȝe[n], Ful myldeli he out gan lete. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xv. 33 Thow luifsum Lark & gay Goldspink,..Lat be ȝour heuinly noitis. 1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii, Wild, witty, lovesome, beautiful and young. 1899Swinburne Rosamund iii. 60, I know not Aught lovesome save the sweet brief death of sleep.
2. Lovable on account of beauty; lovely, beautiful.
a1225St. Marher. 3 Ant wel hire schal iwurthen for hire lussum leor. a1240Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 269 Þu art lufsum on leor, þu art al schene. a1300Cursor M. 604 A luuesum land at lenger in. a1310in Wright Lyric P. 26 Hire rode is ase rose that red is on rys, With lilye-white leres lossum he is. Ibid. 51 A burde of blod ant of bon Never ȝete y nuste non lussomore in londe. c1320Sir Tristr. 2816 Ysonde haue þere he wald Luffsum vnder line. c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 465 O lufsom lady bryght, How haue ye faren syn þat ye were þere? c1420Anturs of Arth. 344 (Douce MS.) A lady, lufsom of lote, ledand a kniȝte. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 1215 He saw..Com fra heuen a lufsom lyght. 15..in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 326 Fair lufsum lady, gentill and discret. 1820Scott Monast. xiv, The handsomest, the very lovesomest young man I ever saw with sight. 1842Tennyson Beggar Maid 12 One praised her ancles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. 1868Morris Earthly Par. ii. 323 He heard a sudden lovesome song begun.
absol.13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1814 ‘Nay..’ Quod þat lufsum vnder lyne. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 398 Þen sayde þat lufsoum of lyth & lere [etc.].
3. Loving, friendly.
c1200Ormin 1547 Aᵹᵹ to follᵹhenn soþ meocleᵹᵹc Wiþþ luffsumm æddmodnesse. 1566Drant Horace's Sat. i. ii. B b, But they, the sillye fonded fooles,..Do feaste him, for his louesom loue. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 20 Won't we hold Our little yearly lovesome frolic feast. 1901H. C. Welch Anselm iii. 48 This increasing influence was due to the happy lovesome temper which plays through his letters.
4. Amorous.
1720Mrs. Manley Power of Love (1741) 150 Caton, who being naturally Lovesome, put herself in his way at every opportunity, so that he could not help saying soft things to her. 1844Kinglake Eothen vii. (1878) 92 Shrubs that twined their arms together in lovesome tangles. 1883Longm. Mag. Sept. 533 While lovesome and moansome thereon spake and falter'd the dove to the dove.
Hence † lovesomehead = lovesomeness.
a1300–1400Cursor M. 5792 (Gött.), I sal þaim bring fra þat thralhede, And into a land of lufsum-hede. |