lovely vs lovesome

lovely

adj
  • Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. 

  • Very nice, wonderful. 

adv
  • In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully. 

noun
  • A lovely object. 

  • Term of fond address. 

  • An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty. 

lovesome

adj
  • Lovable on account of beauty; lovely, beautiful. 

  • Worthy of love; having qualities that inspire love; lovable. 

  • A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! 

How often have the words lovely and lovesome occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )