lovelinessn.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxlviii. 13 Til whaim na thynge may be like in fayrhed & luflynes & in kyndnes.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. vi. 4 Thou art pleasaunt (o my loue) euen as louelynesse itself.

?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. ii. E.i^v For her louelinesse she is called a Doue.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets iv. sig. B^v Unthrifty louelinesse why dost thou spend, Vpon thy selfe thy beauties legacy? View more context for this quotation

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 395 a For a farewell to our jurisprudent, I wish unto him..the lovelinesse of temperance, the stability of fortitude [etc.].

1657 R. Baxter One Sheet against Quakers 2 A Catholick Love to all Christians..proportionable to their several degrees of loveliness.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela (ed. 2) I. Introd. p. xx It adorn'd her, with such unpresum'd Increase of Loveliness.

1780 Masquerades III. x. 117 I was struck with the loveliness of her whole appearance.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxiv. 15 Cheeks..which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 3 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases.

1884 D. Pae Eustace 8 It was a face of surpassing loveliness.

1926 E. von Arnim Introd. to Sally iv. 51 In the presence of her loveliness, what a mere mincing worm he was.

1948 Times 27 Mar. 2/3 The robins..add to the general loveliness with their song.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 217 Blushing Bride... For sheer, fragile loveliness, none surpass the pure white flushed with pink flowers of this very rare shrub.

1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 159 His blood is so low and creeping, that it can never be inflamed to this pitch of passion and expression, with all the lovelinesses in the world.

1722 E. Haywood Brit. Recluse i. 20 A Face, which..sums up all the different Lovelinesses of other Charmers.

1790 G. Walker Serm. Var. Subj. II. xxi. 131 Let us adopt..into the rule of our lives, all the lovelinesses, which compose the character of the disciple of Christ.

1861 Harper's Mag. Oct. 654/1 What can call out the latent lovelinesses of any character if the one rose of life does not win them to the surface?

1894 N. Gale Country Muse 81 Death..Stole her wealth of white and red, All her bosom's lovelinesses.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 14 535 The shortest way home..is across the Park, and there I find unsuspected lovelinesses that one would never see from a trolley car or a taxicab.

1950 A. Nicol World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh iv. iii. 278 In the published texts of the masques we may find many lovelinesses.

2000 M. Karr in M. McQuade By Herself 297 Questioning a poem's central emotion steers me beyond the poem's ostensible subject and surface lovelinesses to its ultimate effect.