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lefull

lefull adjective: permissible, permitted; allowable, allowed.

Adjective

lefull (comparative more lefull, superlative most lefull)

  1. (archaic) permissible, 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
    • :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

Forms of lefull

comparativemore lefull
superlativemost lefull

Origin of lefull

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

Questions about lefull

What does lefull mean?
Lefull means permissible, permitted; allowable, allowed.
What part of speech is lefull?
Lefull is an adjective.

Words near lefull in the dictionary

  1. leftwingers
  2. leftwise
  3. lefty
  4. lefty loosey, righty tighty
  5. leful
  6. lefull
  7. Lefurgey
  8. Lefurgeys
  9. leg
  10. leg around
  11. leg art

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