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Definition of Lifesome
1. a. Animated; sprightly.
Definition of Lifesome
1. Adjective. (poetic) animated; sprightly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lifesome
1. full of life [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lifesome
Literary usage of Lifesome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1885)
"A good working library of lifesome and helpful books, four or five thousand in
number, is of far greater worth than a library of fifty thousand volumes, ..."
2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1856)
"And, when that child goes forth to explore its little range of world, hushes at
the winds' voices, plays with the soft, lifesome brook, plucks the bright ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1887)
"... through ninety years and more; but I won't tell you a lie if I can help it;
and for all I haven't it chapter and verse, it's wonderful lifesome, too. ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1834)
"We doubt whether the whole range of fiction can furnish two more lovely, more
graceful, and more lifesome heroines, than Mary and Esther. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"1 never could conceive of that room being the scene of lifesome gayety, but only
of deep thought, and complicated projects of ambition. ..."
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