Alderlievest
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Alderlievest is an adjective meaning Alternative form of alderliefest.
Meaning
Alternative form of alderliefest.
Example Sentences
Thou hast been spared! Oh, joyful thought, beyond all joy to me! / Again my eager voice I raise,— / My alderlievest! My very own! And, kneeling near thee, / Henceforth I hymn my Maker’s praise!
And to mine Alderlievest Lorde I must endite / A wofull case, a chippe of sorie chaunce, / A tipe of heaven, a lively hew of hell, / A feare to fall, a hope of high advance, / A life, a death, a drearie tale to tell.
“Alderlievest!”—Love flatters not! / In the green lemon-wood, / I saw you first. It matters not! / I saw you, loved you and forgot / To call you goddess. Good! / I deemed it no offense, / To task my mother-sense, / In making love to womanhood.
“And at the corner in the yonder house / Heard I mine alderlievest lady dear / So womanly with voice melodious / Singen so well, so goodly and so clear, / That in my soul yet me thinketh I hear / The blissful sound; and in that yonder place / My lady first me took into her grace.”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include belov'd, lieftel, liever, yald, freeledge, fleury.
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