livesome
adjEtymology From live + -some. Compare lifesome.
1
Having the characteristics of life or of being alive; indicative of life or of living; livable
- 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:
- 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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- 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":