Definition of lief

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Lief (n.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable.

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Animism :: Animism (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter..
Photorelief :: Photorelief (n.) A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations..
Relievo :: Relievo (n.) See Relief, n., 5..
Zendik :: Zendik (n.) An atheist or unbeliever; -- name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies..
Demi-rilievo :: Demi-rilievo (n.) Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.
Troth :: Troth (n.) Belief; faith; fidelity.
Need :: Need (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief..
Barbotine :: Barbotine (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
Ease :: Ease (n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body..
Nepenthe :: Nepenthe (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting..
Grace :: Grace (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.
Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks..
Lief :: Lief (n.) A dear one; a sweetheart.
Orthodoxy :: Orthodoxy (n.) Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy..
Basso-relievo :: Basso-relievo (n.) Same as Bas-relief.
Unbelief :: Unbelief (n.) Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption..
Credence :: Credence (n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.
Toleration :: Toleration (n.) Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief..
Rationalize :: Rationalize (v. i.) To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory, belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the principles of rationalism..
Faithful :: Faithful (a.) Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation..
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