loveable

comparative more loveable · comparative loveabler · superlative most loveable · superlative loveablest

1. alternativeAlternative form of lovable.

   The young Clergyman John Sterling comes very much about me; and proves by far the loveablest man I have met for many a year.

   1835 December 24, Thomas Carlyle, “To his Mother, Scotsbrig”, in Charles Eliot Norton, editor, Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826–1836, volume II (1832–1836), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 389

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   I think I can partly understand why they [my sisters] appear cool towards thee; but it is for nothing in thyself personally, nor for any unkindness towards my Dove, whom every body must feel to be the loveablest being in the world.

   1840 June 2, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “To Miss Peabody”, in Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chicago, Ill.: […] The Society of the Dofobs, published 1907, →OCLC, page 201

   We were angry at Thackeray about you, and he was ashamed and angry at himself—very—he confessed it all to Mrs. B. He was ill, and cross at the time; he will make the amends yet to you, and you will like him and he you, yet. He is a finer, larger, loveabler man, or rather fellow, than ever. We are more infatuated about him than ever.

   c. 1857 May, John Brown, “To Lady Trevelyan”, in his son [i.e., John Brown], D[avid] W[illiam] Forest, editors, Letters of Dr. John Brown: With Letters from Ruskin, Thackeray, and Others, London: Adam and Charles Black, published 1907, →OCLC, page 113