loveful

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Full of love

   Full of love; loving.

   • 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.
   • And a woman, although she may long in her heart for some loveful nook where he will be all her own, must be careful never to let the utterance of such a wish be suffered to interfere with his interests and ambition.
2. 2

   Evoking a feeling of love

   Evoking a feeling of love; lovely.

   • 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;
   • I found Linnaea spreading and blooming in glorious exuberance far and wide over mossy ground, beneath spruce and pine,—the wildest and the gentlest, the most beautiful and most loveful of all the inhabitants of the wilderness.
   • He must have been enjoying our time together because he looked up at me and said, "Mommy, you're loveful and beautiful and heartful."
3. 3

   Seeking or desiring love.

   • 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.
   • Their wishful and loveful ( lustful ) thinking causes serious misperceptions, misinterpretations, misjudgements, and misvaluations about the beloved.
   • Yet I in no loveful longing still rushed on spirit's open wing as if no love I'd ever seen and he my one, belonging to my heart and secret past, knew all of me and my desire, within my heart the ripples cast – thus I could not forget.

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