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likeful en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English likful, licvol, equivalent to like + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal, humorous, rare) Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
   • "This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful. 2007, Brian Jacques, High Rhulain:
   • […] and can sometimes even churn up a huge and hazy cloud of closeknit mindgropings, which when written down might, with luck, reach across to other thinkbeasts and in them trigger wonderings of a likeful kind. 1995, Allen Sture, Of Thoughts And Words:
   • […] that they put the said word in al their English Bibles, with the likeful consent as before, when it is not in the Greeke at al. 1973, original 1582, Gregory Martin, A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures:

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