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Loveful

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of love; loving. poetic

    "For now she was so close to him and knelt, / And rose, him gracing with a loveful smile, / Pure and serene, more with her eyes than lips."

  2. 2
    Evoking a feeling of love; lovely. nonstandard, poetic

    "White and beautiful, gentle and loveful though she be, softly though she down the eyrie, and neatly though she arrange it for his reception, she is still but a dove;"

  3. 3
    Seeking or desiring love. poetic

    "So, all desire, when day hath fled, / And Twilight's wings the sky o'erspread, / Forth posts yon swain in loveful quest / To clasp his mistress to his breast."

Etymology

From Middle English luveful; equivalent to love + -ful.

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