lefull

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adjective

permissible, permitted; allowable, allowed

OriginMiddle English lefull →
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Meanings

adjectivelefull (comparative more lefull, superlative most lefull)

comparative more lefull · superlative most lefull

  1. archaicpermissible, permitted; allowable, allowed

    That thynge is not lefull to be seen / yt is not lefull to be desyred.

    c1500, Thomas Betson, A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005 from 1905 reprint
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    :Quid saluum esse poterit si licet furari, what can be safe, if thefte bee lefull or tolerated.

    1563, Richard Rainolde, A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike, HTML edition, published 2008

    Another book well known to bibliomaniacs ("Dives and Pauper," ed. W. de Worde; 1496) says: "For to represente in playnge at Crystmasse herodes and the thre kynges and other processes of the gospelles both then and at Ester and other tymes also it is lefull and cōmendable."

    1902, William F. Dawson, Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007, page 92

Origin

  1. Middle Englishlefull“permissible, allowable”
  2. Englishlefull

From Middle English lefull (“permissible, allowable”), from lēve (“permission, privilege”), equivalent to leave + -ful.

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APA

lefull. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lefull

MLA

“lefull.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lefull. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lefull,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lefull.

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