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Webster 1913 Edition

Lifesome

Life′some

(līf′sŭm)

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Adj.

Animated; sprightly.

[Poetic]

Coleridge.

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Life′some-ness

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Noun.

Definition 2024

lifesome

lifesome

English

Adjective

lifesome ‎(comparative more lifesome, superlative most lifesome)

(poetic, obsolete) animated; gay; lively; sprightly
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  My sister may not visit us,
  My mother says her nay:
  O Edward! you are all to me,
  I wish for your sake I could be
  More lifesome and more gay.

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