Obs. Forms: 1 lufrǽden, 3 luuered, 4 lufreden(e, louered, lufredyn, 4–5 louerede, 5 louerede, loueraden(e, Sc. 4 luferand, 5 lufrant, 5–6 luferent, 6 luifrent. [OE. lufrǽden, f. luf-u LOVE sb. + OE. rǽden condition: see -RED.] The condition or state of relations in which one person loves another; the emotion or feeling of love; warm affection, good will, kindness; Sc. lust.
c. 1000. Lamb. Ps. cviii. 5 (Bosw.-T.). Hiʓ ʓesetton hatunge for lufræddenne minre.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 9812. A bird wald thinc, His grett luuered, his mikel suinc Þat wald sua first vr liknes haf.
c. 1325. Metr. Hom., 30. He … Com to mak him glad and blithe, And his lufredene til him to kithe.
c. 1340. Hampole, Prose Tr., xxiv. 3. Thai doe wickidly to get thaim the fauour and lufredyn of this warld.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxiv. (Alexis), 160. Quhene he can luk one It, sic luferand he tuk, þat he þare dwelt in body & thocht.
a. 1425. Cursor M., 13255 (Trin.). Of his sarmoun spek many man And of þe louerede þat he wan.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 254. A conquest bairn … is callit in the lawis adopcioun; that is to say … a conquest barne be favour and luferent. Ibid., 263. A man has despyte at his wyf, for haterent of hir, or luferent of ane othir.
14[?]. How Good Wife taught Dau., 90 (in Barbour’s Bruce, etc., 528). For nakit lying lufrent will gendir.
1543. Aberd. Reg. (Jam.). The said gudis war frelie geivin … to his said dothir for dothirlie kindness and luferent.
1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 656. Our life wplift throw feruour and luifrentis.
Hence † Lovereden a., beloved; † Loveredenly adv., in a loving manner.
1425. Orolog. Sapient., i. in Anglia, X. 331/40. Þat I am in alle tymes … so loueradenlye bisye abowte þe as þei … I ȝaf entente onelye to þe. Ibid., 375/41. O þis gracyous and loveraden worde.
