all-winsome

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Winsome is a word used in the north of England, (Ang. Sax. winsum, pleasant,) sweet, pleasant. I have never heard the word, although an American writer thus uses it:


What absence of that anagogical, all-prevalent, all-winsome Brahminism in Christ!--Margaret, p. 258.

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