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English
Etymology
From Middle English likful, licvol, equivalent to like + -ful.
Adjective
likeful (comparative more likeful, superlative most likeful)
- (rare, archaic, dialectal or humorous) Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.
1973, original 1582, Gregory Martin, A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures:[…] 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.
1995, Allen Sture, Of Thoughts And Words:[…] 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.
2007, Brian Jacques, High Rhulain:"This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful.
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