| 释义 |
lovesick, a.|ˈlʌvsɪk|
[f. love n.1 + sick a.]
Languishing for or with love.
1530Palsgr. 317/2 Lovesycke enamowered, enamourée. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. iii. 82 When..he did discourse To loue-sicke Didoes sad attending eare. 1606― Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 198 Purple the Sailes: and so purfumed that The Windes were Loue-sicke with them. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. ix. 54 Where Nightingales their Love-sick Ditty sing. 1739A. Nicol Nature without Art 67 Cure me of this love-sick fever. 1894Mrs. Oliphant Hist. Sk. Q. Anne i. 14 Her great general sighed like a lovesick boy whenever he was absent from her.
Hence lovesickness, lovesick condition.
1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 10 He, by mentioning the Name of Pylas to a sick Woman, found some alteration in her Pulse, by which he discover'd her Love-Sickness. 1874Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxxiv. 2 He had a holy lovesickness upon him. |