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Lovelace|ˈlʌvleɪs|
The name of Robert Lovelace, a character in Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe (1747–8), used allusively for ‘a seducer’.
[1751Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VIII. 294 Ladies..should rather prefer the honest heart of a Hickman..than the volatile mischievous one of a Lovelace. 1812Shelley Let. 11 Jun. (1964) I. 305, I regard charges of resembling Lovelace with contemptuous indifference.] 1850Thackeray Pendennis II. ix. 92 If Arthur had been the most determined roué and artful Lovelace who ever set about deceiving a young girl, he could hardly have adopted better means. 1944S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha's Rebellion in Backlands ii. iv. 127 A scandal in which a certain local bigwig, a police sergeant, was magna pars, the Lovelace of the episode. |