Meanings
comparative more easesome · superlative most easesome
- rareCharacterised or marked by ease; comfortable; comforting.
What is an easesome cot to me? (I'm a-longing for the sea!) […]
1901, Cale Young Rice, Song-surf, page 204 more examples
A troubadour, a sportsman, a dillettante, or even a philosopher, may be developed in a leisurely, easesome journey, in which one may wander as one pleases; but it is a perilous course in which to harden fibre, stiffen a will, and fix a character that cannot be shaken.
1903, The Installation of John Huston Finley, LL.D.She heard the chime from a distant belfry — soft, and slow, and heart-easesome, like soft lips to her soul.
1918, Louise Dunham Goldsberry, Ted: And Some Other Stories, page 112Sri Ramakrishna awakened in this Original Beauty with easesome growth.
1954, Swami Vivekananda, Awakened India, volume 59, page 578For over my friend and I spread a calm Of easesome competence, a creamy balm […]
1965, New Mexico Quarterly, volume 35, page 267
Origin
- Englishease
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*somHós
- Proto-Germanic*samaz
- Englisheasesome
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