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  1. noun A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
  2. noun A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
  3. noun Sexual passion.
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  • I mean, now you're looking at it in the daylight, but at night the place looks quite different. —  The Shadow of the Wind
  • It would have been indeed a phase of physical agony — for his love was his life — and delicious or bitter, he had not the power of withdrawing himself a single moment from its domination. " —  Life of Chopin
  • For my love is a country lass, —  Life and Remains of John Clare
  • You get used to anything, Sylvia thought. —  The Legacy of Heorot
  • “Ed, I left Mom at a party hours ago. —  Run For The Money
 

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admiration · admire · admirer · Adonis · adorable · adoration · adore · adorer · adulate · adulation · affair · affect · affection · affectionate · agape · allegiance

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  1. Middle English, from Old English lufu; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. (Scots) luve, loo; from Middle English loven, luven, lovien, luvien, from Anglo-Saxon lufian, leofian (with short vowel, depending on the noun lufu, love), orig. *leófian = OFries. liavia, luvia, levia = Dutch lieven = Middle Low German lēren, Low German leven = Old High German liubōn, liupōn, Middle High German G. lieben, love; akin to Anglo-Saxon leóf = Gothic (Moesogothic) liubs, etc., dear, lief, from Teutonic √ lub, be pleasing, = Latin libet, lubet, it pleases, = Old Bulgarian liubiti, love (liubŭ, dear), = Bohemian lubiti, libiti = Russian liubitŭ, love, = Lithuanian lubju, long, = Sanskrit √ lubh, desire: see love, n., love, lief, believe, leave, liberal, liberty, etc.
  2. Also dial. (Scots) luve; from Middle English love, luve, from Anglo-Saxon lufu, lufe (= Middle Low German lēve = Old High German liubī, liupī, liupa, Middle High German G. liebe; cf. OFries. liafte, NFries. ljeafde = Dutch liefde), love, from lufian, love: see love, v.
  3. from Middle English loven, lovien, from Anglo-Saxon lofian, praise, value, appraise (= Old Saxon lobhōn = Old High German lobōn, lobēn, Middle High German G. loben = Icelandic lofa = Swedish lofva = Danish love, praise); cf. lof, n., praise; akin to lufian, love, leóf, dear, etc., from Teutonic √ lub, be pleasing: see love, lief, leave, furlough.
 

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