Definitions

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  • adjective in love
  • adjective infatuated

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Examples

  • Yesterday on Public Radio International's show "The Next Big Thing" she said she wanted to bring three obscure words into use and tried to bribe John Linnell of the group "They Might Be Giants" into using all three in liner notes so she could cite them; the words were contrecoup, craniosophic, and limerent.

    languagehat.com: LIMERENT. 2005

  • 80 If limerent, she would not have been able to stop thinking about Rhett.

    languagehat.com: LIMERENT. 2005

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