romance

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I want to say it's more than a romance, but the romance is at the core of it, so I'll say it's a romance plus.

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  1. noun A love affair.
  2. noun Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love: They kept the romance alive in their marriage for 35 years.
  3. noun A strong, sometimes short-lived attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something: a childhood romance with the sea.
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  • Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, the second brother and the young lady had really been married, and became the parents of a posterity, still extant, of which the Middleton of the romance is the surviving male. —  Sketches and Studies
  • Hawthorne's master-stroke in the romance is his description or analysis of the effect produced by this homicide on the different members of the group to which he has introduced us. —  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • So that if the first part of the romance is the Fall of Man repeated, the second part is the proem to a new Paradise Regained; and the seclusion of the sculptor and the Faun, and their journey together to Perugia, seasoned with Kenyon's noble and pure-hearted advice, compose a sort of seven-times-refined Pilgrim's Progress. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • Well, the romance is a success, even if it never finds another reader. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • I want to say it's more than a romance, but the romance is at the core of it, so I'll say it's a romance plus. —  Ramblings on Romance Etcetera, Etcetera
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  1. Middle English, from Old French romans, romance, work written in French, from Vulgar Latin *rōmānicē (scrībere), (to write) in the vernacular, from Latin Rōmānicus, Roman, from Rōmānus; see Roman.

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  1. I. n. Early modern English also romaunce; from Middle English romance, romaunce, romans (also romant, romaunt, q. v.), = D. G. Danish Swedish roman, from Old French romans, romanz, roumans, also roman, romant, roumant, a story, history, romance, also the Romance language, = Provencal romans, a romance, the Romance or (vulgar) Roman language, = Spanish romance, a romance, tale, ballad, the common Spanish language, = Portuguese romance, the vulgar tongue, = Italian romanzo, a romance, fable, = Romansh romansch (Middle Latin reflex Romancium, the Romance language; also romagium, a romance); from Latin Romanicus, Roman (through the adverb, Middle Latin Romanice, in Roman or Latin fashion; Romanice loqui, French parler romans, speak in Romance, or the vulgar Latin tongue), from Romanus, Roman: see Romanic, Roman. Cf. romant. II. a. (and I., n., 7). In form after the noun, from Middle Latin Romanicus, Romanic, Romance: see above. Cf. Romansh.
  2. = Old French romancier, roumancer = Provencal romansar = Spanish Portuguese romancear, translate into the vulgar tongue, = Italian romanzeggiare, write romances; from the noun: see romance, n.
 

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