Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete or dialectal form of loof.
  • noun An obsolete form of loof, luff.
  • noun An obsolete form of love.

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Examples

  • Probably the most satisfying time in my proffessional lufe was when “Sector Policing” was in vogue under the Conservatives.

    What Really Matters At The Top « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Age Group: 65+ There is hardly anything I can think of in my daily lufe today that existed when I was born other than electricity and the airplane.

    This I Believe Ben 2005

  • [348] "When I had takene my syngulere purpos and lefte the seculere habyte, and I be-ganne mare to serve God than mane, it fell one a nyghte als I lay in my reste, in the begynnynge of my conversyone, thare appered to me a full faire yonge womane, the whilke I had sene be-fore, and the whilke luffed me noght lyttil in gude lufe."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Swá ibrúce ic mine  {25} rice ne scule ȝíe mine mete ibite. ac scule þa þe hit mid mire lufe ȝearnede.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • If pou wil lufe, pan may pou syng til Cryst in melody,

    Love is Life 1917

  • For now lufe pow, I rede, Cryste, as I pe tell: 45

    Love is Life 1917

  • Pare es na tonge in erth my tell of lufe pe swetness;

    Love is Life 1917

  • Lufe vs clenses of oure syn, lufe vs bote sall bryng;

    Love is Life 1917

  • In erth pow hate, I rede, all pat pi lufe may fell:

    Love is Life 1917

  • Pe lufe of hym ouercoms al thyng, parto pou traiste trewly.

    Love is Life 1917

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