The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lief \Lief\ (l[=e]f), a. [Written also lieve.] [OE. leef, lef, leof, AS. le['o]f; akin to OS. liof, OFries. liaf, D. lief, G. lieb, OHG. liob, Icel. lj?fr, Sw. ljuf, Goth. liubs, and E. love. [root]124. See Love, and cf. Believe, Leave, n., Furlough, Libidinous.]
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Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.] ``My liefe mother.''
--Chaucer. ``My liefest liege.''
--Shak.As thou art lief and dear.
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Note: (Used with a form of the verb to be, and the dative of the personal pronoun.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable. [Obs.] See Lief, adv., and Had as lief, under Had.
Full lief me were this counsel for to hide.
--Chaucer.Death me liefer were than such despite.
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Willing; disposed. [Obs.]
I am not lief to gab.
--Chaucer.He up arose, however lief or loth.
--Spenser.
Wikipedia
Lieve may refer to:
Culture:
- Lieve Jongens, 1980 Dutch film
Places:
- Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder, 17th century canal house, house church, and museum in the city center of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Onze Lieve Vrouweplein, square in the centre of Maastricht in The Netherlands
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost, simply known as the Troostkerk, is a basilica in Vilvoorde, Belgium
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver, Belgian village roughly 10 km east of Mechelen
People:
- Lieve Fransen MD PhD, Director of the Representations Directorate for the European Commission's Directorate-General Communication
- Lieve Geelvinck (1676–1743), administrator of the Dutch East India Company and member of the Council of State
- Lieve Slegers (born 1965), former long-distance runner from Belgium
- Lieve Van Ermen (born 1948), Flemish politician and cardiologist
Usage examples of "lieve".
En omdat zij vroom was, met de kinderlijk-geloovende vroomheid van een eenvoudig hart, dat dankbaarheid voelde voor wat het eens geschonken was geworden, vouwde zij hare dorre handen en bad zij, bad zij voor hare lieve Elly, die niet gelukkig was.
Dat zal tienmaal zoo lekker smaken als anders, uit zulke lieve vingertjes.
Kensington Methodist Hall expressed in stone the ambivalent feelings of prosperous Methodists, who be424 KEN FOLLETT lieved in religious simplicity but secretly longed to display their wealth.
En zij dacht, steeds voor haar piano, nu een roulade, dan een paar voorslagen studeerende, aan andere lieve menschen, die zij kende.
Ze had van alles kunnen zeggen, dat liefde zich niet liet dwingen, dat veel ellende voortkwam uit het verlangen naar iemand die niet wil, dat onbereikbaarheid een sterke prikkel was, dat Jimmy een lieve, intelligente man was.
Van Raat eenige boeken te sturen, lieve, lichte lectuur, waarin men de wereld door roze glaasjes bekeek.
Vroeger was ik ook in zorgen, eerst over mijn lieve papa, later over tante Vere, die ik in haar ziekte heb opgepast.
Even with the subminiaturization that modern Federation technology has achieved, that is hard to be STAR TREK LOG TEN 137 lieve.
Saphira si abbassò verso di loro, e con un lieve fruscio d'ali atterrò accanto a un gruppo di nani sbigottiti, impegnati a scavare con i picconi.
She really hadn't be lieved Nick this afternoon when he intimated he'd thwarted Father's plans.
It would be his word against ours--and no one be lieves wild stories from kids.
E comparve un debole rossore, sul suo delicato levigatissimo ovale, e un lieve fremito sulle sue labbra.
The trembling began in his center and spread outward, a reaction not of anger or fear but of disap pointment and hurt, guilt that he felt though he did not be lieve he deserved it, and a wish to make everything all right.