a. rare. [f. LOVE sb. + -LIKE.] Of a nature appropriate to love. † Also = LOVELY.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 296. Her haire was … of a dainty, and loue-like browne.
1839. Bailey, Festus (1852), 447. Musing, as wont, With love-like sadness, upon sacred things.
Hence † Love-likely adv., lovelily.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 81. Shee lookt sadly, and wept so loue-likely, as all pittied her.
