win·some
adj. Charming, often in a childlike or naive way.
So what does it mean to be winsome?
Word History: Winsome people easily win friends, so it is not surprising that winsome and win have a common root. Their shared root *wen-, meaning "to desire, strive for," has a number of descendants in the Germanic languages:
- wini- meaning "friend" (literally, "one who desires or loves" someone else), which became wine in Old English
- wynn: "pleasure, joy ", preserved in winsome.
- win: "to strive for with success, be victorious."
Longing to win loving, joyful, friendship. (Did we forget what it means to be a child?)
Matthew 19:15 "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.”
John 15:11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. "
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