Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Loveliest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lovely \Love"ly\, a. [Compar. {Lovelier}; superl. {Loveliest}.]
[AS. luflic.]
1. Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to
excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form,
looks, tone, or manner. ``Lovely to look on.'' --Piers
Plowman.

Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely.
--Robert of
Brunne.

If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as
lovely as is this of hers. --Shak.

2. Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which
excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.

A most lovely gentlemanlike man. --Shak.

3. Loving; tender. [Obs.] ``A lovely kiss.'' --Shak.

Many a lovely look on them he cast. --Chaucer.

4. Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which
is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely
valley; a lovely melody.

Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the
Elysian lawns. --Tennyson.

Syn: Beautiful; charming; delightful; delectable; enchanting;
lovable; amiable.


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