liefsome

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1. archaicdialectalpoeticAgreeable; pleasing; delightful.

   The manner in which he treated my dog did not seem very liefsome to me.

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   So forth I go apace to see that liefsome sight, And with a kiss, methinks I say, 'Welcome, my lord, my knight; …'

   1854, Henry Howard Surrey (Earl of), Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Robert Bell, Poetical works of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey