homelikeadv.adj.

1619 W. Throckmorton et al. Ordinances 4 Sept. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1933) III. 209 Wee doe ordayne..that you cause forthwth to be erected houses..built homelike and to be couered wth bordes.

1632 A. Harsnett Cordiall for Afflicted To Rdr. sig. A12 Now if the style, and phrase dislike any, because it is so plaine, and homelike; let him know that I prepared this provision for poore and hungry souls.

1794 J. Byng Diary 16 Sept. in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 69 The Eator is a goodish inn, yet this is more homelike, and comfortable.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 98 A more home-like acquaintance with the language.

1886 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ By Woman's Wit I. ii. 61 It is..not too fine for use, and supremely home-like.

1910 Weekly Market Growers Jrnl. 21 May 1/3 The home-like place will bring dollars more for every acre than the unadorned place.

1958 K. Nelson & C. Ford Klondy: Daughter Gold Rush vii. 104 I was planning ways to decorate the cabin and make it homelike.

2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 June a1/3 An eight-year-old movement to replace large nursing homes with small, homelike facilities for 10 to 12 residents.

1851 H. C. Knight New Mem. Hannah More xvi. 290 Miss More's ready and gentle acquiescence to this providential ordering of her affairs gratified her friends, and reflected peace and homelikeness throughout her new abode.

1887 ‘E. Lyall’ Knight-errant II. ix. 215 Its air of comfort and homelikeness.

1992 J. R. Martin Schoolhome (1995) i. 12 Maintaining that the Casa dei Bambini ‘is not simply a place where the children are kept, not just an asylum, but a true school for their education’, she indicated that even in its homelikeness it was to be educative.