Lief
n.
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Same as Lif.
Lief
a.
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Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.]
As thou art lief and dear.
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Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable. [Obs.]
Full lief me were this counsel for to hide.
Death me liefer were than such despite.
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Willing; disposed. [Obs.]
I am not lief to gab.
He up arose, however lief or loth.
Lief
n.
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A dear one; a sweetheart. [Obs.]
Lief
adv.
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Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.
All women liefest would
Be sovereign of man's love.
I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines.
Far liefer by his dear hand had I die.