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adverb

  1. gladly; willingly: I would as lief go south as not.

adjective Archaic.

  1. willing; desirous.
  2. dear; beloved; treasured.

adverb

  1. rare gladly; willinglyI’d as lief go today as tomorrow

adjective

  1. archaic
    1. ready; glad
    2. dear; beloved

adj.Old English leof “dear, valued, beloved, pleasant;” also as a noun, “a beloved person, friend,” from Proto-Germanic *leubo- (cf. Old Norse ljutr, Old Frisian liaf, Dutch lief, Old High German liob, German lieb, Gothic liufs “dear, beloved”), from PIE root *leubh- “love” (see love (n.)). As an adverb, “dearly, willingly” from c.1250. I want and I’d love to are overworked and misused to fill the hole left in the language when I would lief faded in 17c.

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