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Well, there are women who die for their love, that is, when their love is a treasure which has become their all, which is their very life!

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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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  • But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her. —  Mary Balogh - Heartless
  • Whether love was all in all or not this was the great, wonderful range of love, and love was not complete short of the whole. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • In particular, with the love-choice marriage, the question arises whether love is the kind of thing described by a longer synthesis, or whether shorter, intense syntheses are at its base. —  Limited, Inc.
  • Robin Bengtsson - my love is your love (bra kvalité)
  • And if his true love, in France, had been watching him, she would have found no fault, if her love were as true as his. —  The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale
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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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