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jmdict 2856502 Active (id: 2210790)
好もしい
このもしい
1. [adj-i] [dated]
▶ nice
▶ likeable
▶ desirable
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1277490 好ましい 1. nice; likeable; desirable

Conjugations


History:
3. A 2022-10-03 19:29:50  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
好ましい	564874
  Comments:
Certainly much less common.
2. A* 2022-10-03 09:54:00 
  Comments:
other dictionaries are bad at pointing out when words are dated. I'd trust Meikyo on this one
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<misc>&dated;</misc>
1. A* 2022-10-03 05:27:07  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
kokugos, gg5

In its entry for 好ましい, meikyo says: やや古い言い方で「好もしい」とも。
But all the other refs say it's the same as 好ましい

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬───────╮
│ 好もしい  │ 6,596 │
│ このもしい │     0 │
╰─ーーーーー─┴───────╯

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