loveful

Adjective

loveful (comparative more loveful, superlative most loveful)

1. (poetic) Full of love; loving.
   • For now she was so close to him and knelt, / And rose, him gracing with a loveful smile, / Pure and serene, more with her eyes than lips.1800, John Hearns, A cordial of comfort, page 49
   • It is a loveful dominion at which he must arrive. To this he never can attain, so long as his lower appetites and natures are interested in giving a lower value to the animals. He who goes to the butcher to cheapen lamb-chops for his gratification, is not in the best possible condition for...1843, The New Age, Concordium Gazette, & Temperance Advocate, page 92
2. (nonstandard, poetic) Evoking a feeling of love; lovely.
   • White and beautiful, gentle and loveful though she be, softly though she down the eyrie, and neatly though she arrange it for his reception, she is still but a dove;1848, R, “Marriage, Real and Nominal”, in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 7, page 357
   • I found Linnaea spreading and blooming in glorious exuberance far and wide over mossy ground, beneath spruce and pine,—the wildest and the gentlest, the most beautiful and most loveful of all the inhabitants of the wilderness.2005, Bonnie Johanna Gisel, Nature Journal with John Muir
3. (poetic) Seeking or desiring love.
   • So, all desire, when day hath fled, / And Twilight's wings the sky o'erspread, / Forth posts yon swain in loveful quest / To clasp his mistress to his breast.1874, John MacClure, Echoes from sunny-land. A poem, in five cantos, page 166
   • Their wishful and loveful ( lustful ) thinking causes serious misperceptions, misinterpretations, misjudgements, and misvaluations about the beloved.1984, Mohar Singh Rao, Vital New and Revolutionary Principles of Human Psychology, page 202