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adjective

Amiable adj.

Lovable; lovely; pleasing. (Obs. or R.) "So amiable a prospect."

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman.

Done out of love. (Obs.) "Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife."

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"Amiable" Quotes from Famous Books

... Helen, slowly, "it will be the best policy; but, May Brooke, I feel as if I am in a panther's den, or, better still, it's like Beauty and the Beast, only, instead of an enchanted lover, I have an excessively cross and impracticable old uncle to be amiable to. Does he ...

— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey

... impossible?" said Madame Caraman, in an amiable voice; "misery is easily found—one must ...

— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere

... amiable trait in the character of Hector, that his pity in this instance supercedes his caution, and that at the sight of his brother in circumstances so affecting, he becomes at once inattentive to himself and the ...

— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... being a mile and a half east from Langside, was, situated in the rear of the Queen's own army. I was led astray in the present case, by the authority of my deceased friend, James Grahame the excellent and amiable author of the Sabbath, in his drama on the subject of Queen Mary; and by a traditionary report of Mary having seen the battle from the Castle of Crookstone, which seemed so much to increase the interest of the scene, that I have ...

— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott

... the oldest representations of the Redeemer are purely ideal. He appears as a young man, with no beard, his hair arranged in the Roman style, wearing a short tunic, and showing the amiable countenance of the Good Shepherd. I give here a characteristic specimen of this type, a statue of the first quarter of the third century, now in the Lateran Museum.[166] Whether performing one of the miracles which prove his divinity, or teaching the new doctrine to the disciples, ...

— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani

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