livesome

comparative more livesome · superlative most livesome

1. Having the characteristics of life or of being alive; indicative of life or of living; livable

   If gainst my will, what sorrow will availe? / O livesome death, O sweete and pleasant ill, / Against my minde how can thy might prevaile?

   1979, Colin Crouch, The Politics of Industrial Relations

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   What said a respectable female inhabitant of the town, when placing her female relatives and guests in good positions for the show? "We shall have a good day, they have a fine livesome creature."

   1839, David Mushet, The Wrongs of the Animal World

   He tenderly bowed to the twinkling girl. “Yours,” said Zeus, “to have and to hold.” Epimetheus took Pandora's hand, to escort his livesome doll away.

   2005, Nigel Jonathan Spivey, Songs on Bronze

   [...]—with emergent meanings as performed both by the woman Stephen meets and by the objects with which she is associated: a “livesome” room, copious easy chair, and a huge doll with its legs splayed promiscuously.

   2015, Stephen Watt, "Something Dreadful and Grand"