| 单词 | abode of love |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAbode of Love Abode of Love n. now historical the headquarters in Somerset, England, of the sect of the Agapemonites; = Agapemone n.; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > other dwelling places > [noun] > of love Abode of Love1849 Agapemone1860 1849 Times 25 June 7/4 He said, I know the place called the ‘Agapemone’. Sir F. Thesiger.—The ‘Abode of Love’, is it not? 1851 Illustr. London News 29 Mar. 253/3 The Agapemone, or the Abode of Love, is the residence of a religious body, which calls itself the Family of Love. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 29 Sept. 590/2 The happy nature of my retirement is most sweetly expressed in its being the abode of Love. It is, as it were, an inexpensive Agapemone. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 366/1 Pigott retired to the headquarters of the sect, the ‘Abode of Love’ in Somerset. 1931 G. B. Shaw Let. 24 Nov. in To a Young Actress (1960) 156 If the customer wants to decorate a bedroom in an Abode of Love he (or she) may require something quite different from the keeper of a boarding house in Tunbridge Wells. 1993 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 2 May 28 At his aptly-named Abode of Love community, Prince promised redemption of the body through sexual love. < as lemmas |
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