英语词汇“the love that dare not speak its name”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. In prepositional phrases, chiefly with for.

a. In asseverations and imprecations.

(a) for the love of: for the sake of, on account of. Frequently in emphatic declarations and exclamations, as for the love of God (see also for (also †fore) God's love at god n. and int. Phrases 1b). †Also for my (our, etc.) love: for my (our, etc.) sake. In later use only when some sense of the literal meaning is implied (chiefly in exclamations); in early use often merely idiomatic, corresponding to classical Latin causā, gratiā for the sake of (used both with a noun in the genitive, e.g. honōris causā, honoris gratiā for the sake of honour, and with a pronominal adjective, e.g. meā causā, meā gratiā for my sake, tuā causā, tuā gratiā for your sake); cf. also classical Latin pro amōre, used with a possessive adjective, e.g. prō amōre nostro for our love, and in post-classical Latin also with a noun in the genitive, e.g. prō amōre studiorum for the love of studies (6th cent.). With for the love of God cf. post-classical Latin Dei causa (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), pro Dei amore (6th cent.). In Old English the noun was often in plural.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > [phrase] > for the sake of

for my (our, etc.) loveeOE

for the love ofeOE

for (one's, a thing's) sakea1225

for sert ofa1400

for (also upon) a person's occasion1567

in favour of1605

for sake('s) sake1665

on occasion of (a person)1860

the mind > language > speech > request > [phrase] > earnest expressions

for (also fore) God's loveeOE

for the love of GodeOE

for God's sakec1386

for (also of) all lovesa1400

for love's sakea1400

in (also a, o', on) God's namea1400

of all lovea1400

for pity1484

for pity's sake1484

eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxii. 51 Ic wille [þe oðewan] forlustlice for ðinum lufum [L. tui causa libenter].

OE Blickling Homilies 23 Eal þis he þrowode for ure lufan & hælo.

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 7 (MED) I bidde and warni, for ðe luue of gode and for ȝuer lieue saule, þat ȝie hatien..ðes awerȝhede senne.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14683 (MED) For þin dedes gode..We wil noght stan þe..Bot for þine werkes gain þe lau And for þe luue o þi missau.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 891 We shall destroy all the knyghtes of kyng Arthurs..for the love of sir Galahad.

c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 163 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 74 Sa hyme, for þe luf of me, þat in my nam he baptis þe.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxii Required the Englishe lordes for the loue of God that the truce might continue.

1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 790 The Sauages came to the Island..and tore the two vpper strakes, and caried them away onely for the loue of the iron in the boords.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 826 Impose some seruice on me for thy Loue.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 82 For the loue o'God peace.

1661 W. Ames Good Counsell & Advice 12 Let none have occasion to say, that for the love of your goods, your liberty or your lives, any of you have forsaken the way of truth.

1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Dec. (1948) I. 115 I begged Mr. Harley for the love of God to take some care about it.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 96 For the love of Mahomet, my dear Fakreddin, have done!

1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 115 A Table Round, That was to be, for love of God and man And noble deeds, the flower of all the world.

1882 Cent. Mag. Feb. 488/1 For the love of heaven do something for me or I'll die, so I will.

1913 J. London God of his Fathers 69 For the love of your mother, hold your say, man.

1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back iii. 41 Can you not see that bloody machine-gun there? And for the love of God put your sights up.

1960 G. Durrell Zoo in my Luggage (1965) viii. 173 Don't, for the love of Allah, let her get into the china department.

1999 D. Mitchell Ghostwritten 340 ‘Oh for the love of God you two,’ muttered John.

(b) colloquial. for the love of Mike [probably showing euphemistic substitution of the male forename Mike (compare Mike n.⁴) for God] : an exclamation of exasperation or surprise; ‘for goodness' sake!’

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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene

loOE

spi?c1225

how mischance——?c1330

with mischance!c1330

by my hoodc1374

by my sheath1532

by the mouse-foot1550

what the (also a) goodyear1570

bread and salt1575

by Jove1575

in (good) truly1576

by these hilts1598

by the Lord Harry1693

by the pody cody1693

by jingo!1694

splutter1707

by jing!1786

I snore1790

declare1811

by the hokey1825

shiver my timbers1834

by the (great) horn spoon1842

upon my Sam1879

for goodness' sake1885

yerra1892

for the love of Mike1896

by the hokey fiddle1922

knickers1971

1896 A. C. Ray Dick xii. 207 He sank back on the couch, remarking slowly to himself,— ‘Oh, for the love of Mike!’

1901 S. Crane in Home Mag. N.Y. Jan. 77/2 ‘For the love of Mike, madam, what ails you?’ he spluttered.

1909 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 21 Dec. For the love of Mike, man, haven't you got a heart?

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 727 O move over your big carcass out of that for the love of Mike listen to him.

1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. i. ix. 57 For de love o' Mike, will you listen to dat, now.

1934 J. Brophy Waterfront i. 14 For the love of mike..shut those blasted windows.

1941 Penguin New Writing 8 91 Well, for the luvva Mike!

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 11 Tired? Well for the love of mike! What about me?

1957 A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia xv. 181 For the love of Mike, let's hope he's brave.

1999 J. Burchill Married Alive xii. 181 ‘Why wasn't she wearing any fucking clothes!’ I scream at the top of my voice. ‘Because she was under a waterfall, for the love of Mike—’.

(c) for the love of Pete: see pete n. 1.

b. for (also †of) all loves (also † upon all loves, † of all love): expressing a strong appeal or entreaty. Similarly (and now chiefly) for love's sake.

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the mind > language > speech > request > [phrase] > earnest expressions

for (also fore) God's loveeOE

for the love of GodeOE

for God's sakec1386

for (also of) all lovesa1400

for love's sakea1400

in (also a, o', on) God's namea1400

of all lovea1400

for pity1484

for pity's sake1484

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 20380 Whi wepestou, what is þe? For alle loues [a1400 Vesp. For felaured, a1400 Gött. For felauschip] telle now me.

c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 1587 (MED) Sir, for alle loues, Lete me thy prisoneres seen!

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Amabo..Of felowshippe: of all loues: I pray the: as euer thou wilte doe me good turne.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 160 Speake, of all loues. I swoune almost with feare.

1618 J. Ussher Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. xxxiii. 64 I do intreat you of all Love, to look over the first Edition.

1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 185 She..intreateth him that was worshipped vpon the Altar, of all loves, mercies, and works of wonder, to restore her vnto her health.

a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 31 O sweet Father, for Loues sake pittie me.

c1646 in 2nd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 87/1 [10l.] which I desire you of all love to pay upon sight of this my letter.

1655 J. S. tr. B. della Rovere Phillis of Scyros iii. iv. 63 For loves sake, doe not press me to relate So long a story now.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. li. 257 For your own honour's sake, as well as for love's sake, join with me.

1793 C. Smith Old Manor House IV. viii. 196 Madam..begged him of all love to leave the country for fear of accidents.

1829 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 133 Beg her of all love to establish herself in a more collegiate part of Cambridge.

1871 E. S. P. Ward Silent Partner iv. 86 Here a minute, for love's sake, Catty.

1906 B. Carman Pipes of Pan 51 Gentle spirit, grieve not so, for love's sake!

1925 A. Lowell Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds 132 Christine clung to him with sobbing cries, Pleading for love's sake that he leave her not.

1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise iv. 62 Am I in childbed, for all love, that I should be plagued, smothered, destroyed with caudle?

1992 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 8 Sept. d8 Buckle up, for love's sake!

c. for love: by reason of love (often placed in opposition to pecuniary considerations). Frequently in to marry for love.

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?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. xvi. sig. T. ij They that marie for loue, shall leade their lyfe in sorowe.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 45 [Johnson] It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

1868 Sat. Rev. 14 Mar. 340/2 It is only the old-fashioned sort, not girls of the period pur sang, that marry for love.

1946 G. Hopkins tr. F. Mauriac Woman of Pharisees ix. 100 The dead woman was still in his eyes a heroine who might have died for love but would never have been false to her plighted word.

2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Oct. 43/2 Lavransdatter′s..plot might be summarized as the story of a Daddy's girl who refuses Daddy's choice of a husband and marries for love.

d. for love or money: at any price, by any means. (Chiefly in negative contexts.)

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > [adverb] > by no means

no waya1400

in no sauce1542

for love or money?1576

nil1581

nohow1775

not exactly1893

OE Blickling Homilies 43 Ne wandige na se mæssepreost..ne for feo, ne for nanes mannes lufon.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. i. 101 And neuer leue hem for loue ne for lacchyng of syluer.

a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) l. 1484 in K. Brunner Mittelengl. Vers-roman über Richard Löwenherz (1913) 159 Neyþer ffor loue, neyther ffor eye.]

?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. G.iii My Lords Balife wil haue carts for loue or money.

1590 C. S. Briefe Resol. Right Relig. 18 Then should not men eyther for loue or money haue pardons.

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E3^v If you can (either for loue or money) prouide your selfe a lodging by the water side.

1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers ii. i. 11 This lewd Cozen of ours..has had all the women in Town that are to be had for Love or Money.

1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 Aug. (1948) II. 553 No more Ghosts or Murders now for Love or Money.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxxvi. 251 I'll be revenged of you, if there be a man to be had for love or money.

1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) i. 18 Any person who, for love or money, might be induced to take the letter in his charge.

1869 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. Pref. iv He let me..use..Anglo-Saxon texts not elsewhere to be had for love or money.

1928 Times 30 Aug. 8/4 It appears to be impossible to get a hold of a useful rabbit-chasing ferret, for love or money.

1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 93 Gigolos are unobtainable in London for love or money, but unemployed actors and male models may be had by the desperate.

1997 C. B. Divakaruni Mistress of Spices 248 You couldn't buy them from a dealer, not for love or money.

e. for love: (a) without stakes being wagered, for nothing (applied to the practice of playing a competitive game for the pleasure of playing); (b) (in extended use) for pleasure rather than profit (colloquial).

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society > leisure > entertainment > mere amusement > [adverb]

of or on the spleenc1460

for love1678

for fun1750

for the fun of the thing1751

for the fun of it1823

good for a laugh1835

for the ride1863

(just) for the hell of it1908

pour le sport1924

for (the) shits and giggles (also grins)1983

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 58 For these, at Beast, and L'hombre, [you] wooe, And play for Love, and Money too.

1813 Sporting Mag. 41 296 A match of..single-stick, was played..for what is technically termed Love and a Belly-full.

1823 C. Lamb New Year's Eve in Elia 63 I play over again for love, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxxii. 383 Mrs. Todgers..proposed that..they should play for ‘love’.

1879 H. C. Merivale Lady of Lyons i. 4 Points be bothered, I plays for love.

1930 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 Oct. 8/3 She would be surprised to know that those games [sc. poker and twenty-one] were played for love.

1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana (1962) 154 He really does all this for love. You see, I saved his life once.

a1969 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody (1992) 12 Jack Kerouac didn't write this book for money, he wrote it for love, he gave it away to the world.

2007 Northern Miner (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 7 They were disappointed they were only playing ‘for love’ because scores wouldn't be officially registered.

P2. In prepositional phrases with in, into, out of.

a. to fall (or †yfall, also †be taken, caught) in love: to become enamoured; (in extended use) to become passionately attached to, dote on. Frequently with with (in Old English with genitive of person). Also in early use †to yfall (also be brought) into love's dance.With on in quot. OE cf. on prep. 23. [Compare classical Latin in amorem incidere, Middle French tomber en amour (1538; French tomber amoureux (1696)).]

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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love [verb (intransitive)] > fall in love

to fall (or yfall, also be taken, caught) in loveOE

to yfall (also be brought) into love's danceOE

assot1393

in by the week1534

to have got it badly1860

to take a fall1942

OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) i. 2 Þa ða se fæder þohte hwam he hi mihte healicost forgifan, þa gefeol his agen mod on hyre lufe mid unrihtre gewilnunge [L. pater..incidit in amorem filiae suae].

c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) xlv So ferr ifallyng into lufis dance.

?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.v Than in to loues daunce we were brought.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlviii. 162 He was taken in loue.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 544/2 I shall fall in love with her.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. iv. 37 Locryne fell in great phancy and loue with a faire Damosell.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 63^v Of which water who so drinketh shall be caught in loue.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. Argum. sig. E8^v He sees her face; doth fall in loue, and soone from her depart.

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xliii. 134 With the pleasantnesse of which, they were so taken in loue, that [etc.].

1675 J. Bunyan Light for Them that sit in Darkness 171 Can you behold a Crucified Christ and not Bleed, and not Mourn, and not fall in Love with him?

1724 M. Davys Reform'd Coquet 165 You are the first Woman under Thirty that ever fell in love with a grey Beard.

1768 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 25 A young lady of fashion..has fallen in love with my cousin.

1785 E. Inchbald Appearance is against Them i. ii. 11 You are a fellow that falls in love with every face you see.

1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 7 The most wretchedly romantic youth that ever fell in love..and turned his face moonwards.

1887 H. R. Haggard Jess iv. 31 John Niel was no chicken, nor very likely to fall in love with the first pretty face he met.

1928 Daily Express 21 Feb. 9/2 There is a suggestion that he has fallen in love with a ‘shiksa’ (a Christian girl).

1969 E. Cleaver Post-prison Writings 23 I fell in love with the Black Panther Party immediately upon my first encounter with it.

1999 S. Orbach Impossibility of Sex (2000) 170 She feared that Charles and Maria would really hit if off; they would fall in love again, want to keep the baby, shut her out.

b. in love (with): enamoured (of), filled with love (for); (in extended use) very fond (of), much addicted (to). In quot. a1398: †in heat (obsolete). See also mad in love at mad adv. 2b and madly in love at madly adv. 2a. [With the spec. use in quot. a1398 perhaps compare Middle French en ameur, Middle French, French en amour (of an animal) in heat (15th cent.), which apparently originally showed the reflex of an unattested post-classical Latin variant of classical Latin hūmor arising by folk-etymological association with classical Latin amor.]

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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective]

amorousc1330

in love (with)a1398

in amours1523

passionate1534

browden1597

inamorate1606

enamoureda1631

épris1793

that way1865

kissy1873

pash1920

potty1923

keen1936

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 146^v Whanne þe swan is in loue, sche secheþ the female and plesiþ hire wiþ byclippinge of þe necke.

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 46 He is for ladyis in luf a right lusty schadow.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 5 He would talke..of the stories of the Scripture, so sweetely..as I was woonderfully in loue with him.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 140 A woman cannot possibly doe any thing y^t may make her husband more in love with her, then to play the good huswife.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 76 I was in loue with my bed.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 20 Quoth she, Y' have almost made m' in love With that, which did my pitty move.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xvii. 347 He that believes, without having any Reason for believing, may be in love with his own Fansies.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. x. 15 What, is the fool in love in earnest then?

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. xlviii. 19 She is in love with you, my noble fellow.

1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 113 Its conduct, we are told, made the excellent Falkland in love with the very name of parliament.

1881 L. B. Walford Dick Netherby xvii. 213 He was not himself in love.

1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xviii. 25 Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave.

1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson iii. 28 Her soul was as a flower in its opetide. She was in love.

1941 P. Hamilton Hangover Square ii. i. 52 He was head over heels in love with her as soon as he had a moment to be near her.

1969 J. McPhee Levels of Game 10 He is in love with his work. He knows the exact height and tensile strength of the corporate ladder.

1996 Rolling Stone 18 Apr. 80/1 They trudge dutifully through the tacky clichés of legal eagles in love.

c. out of love (with): not or no longer in love (with); (in extended use) disenchanted or disgusted (with).

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the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective]

irk1303

wlatfula1387

squeamous1398

irksome1435

fastidiousa1535

loathsome1577

out of love (with)1577

squeamish1581

loathingc1595

sick1600

distastive1611

distastefula1616

detestant1650

distasting1654

1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians xli. f. 292 Thou bee so farre out of loue with thy sonne [Fr. tu es si desbordé contre ton fils], that thou art vnwylling too see him.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 10 Hee seemeth either too farre in loue with himselfe, or to farre out of loue with others.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 202 I should haue scratch'd out your vnseeing eyes, To make my Master out of loue with thee.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 173 I am so out of loue with life.

1680 E. Fowler Libertas Evangelica ii. vii. 80 Atonement is..a most effectual means, to this farther End, the making us out of love with Sin.

1722 D. Defoe Relig. Courtship i. i. 5 What's the matter, that you are so out of love with the World all on a sudden?

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xi. 83 Lord W.'s animosity to my father made him out of love with his name.

1796 S. Lee Almeyda iv. i. 52 I, like thee, Grow out of love with reason.

1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. ix. 278 Bellamy tells me the strangest story of her having been, since I left London, in love and out of love with John Falconer.

1867 A. Cary Bishop's Son x. 192 Perhaps every man who is out of love thinks pretty much after this fashion of his friend who is in love.

1890 J. Todhunter Sicilian Idyll i. 8 Hope shuns me: I am out of love with life.

1914 B. Carman Earth Deities 72 Whatever can have come his way To put him out of love to-day?

1955 R. Campbell in E. W. Tedlock D. Thomas (1960) i. 45 He was never out of love with his beautiful wife and muse, Caitlin.

1992 A. V. Roberts Morning's Gate xvi. 282 In and out of love with amazing regularity and unflagging enthusiasm, Polly was passionate about most things.

d. to fall out of love (with): to cease to be in love (with); (in extended use) to become disenchanted or disgusted (with).

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1596 J. Harington New Disc. Metamorph. Ajax sig. Ciiij^v (I heard of a truth, that a great Lady that loued Parsnips very well, after she had heard how they grew, could neuer abide them) and I would be loath, to cause any to fall out of loue with so good a dish.

a1653 H. Binning Serm. in Wks. (1735) 284/2 God never begins to be pleasant and lovely to a Soul, til it begins to fall out of Love with itself, and grow lothsome in its own Eyes.

1701 R. Calder Schola Sepulchri 38 The belief of the Resurrection will teach us to fall out of Love with the World,..there is nothing in it but Vanity and Miserie.

1856 Littell's Living Age 5 July 34/2 No man falls out of love so safely as a man who falls in love with a beauty.

1877 Catholic World July 530/1 He was always falling in love with any pretty face that struck his fancy, and then just as easily falling out of love with an unwounded heart.

1915 Amer. Anthropologist 17 601 Despite our ingenuity, we do grow up, we grow old, we fall in love, we fall out of love.

2002 Times 11 Feb. i. 13/2 There are signs that voters have fallen out of love with the party.

†e. in the love of: beloved by. Frequently in the love of God. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [adjective]

lief and deara900

dearOE

sweetOE

lovedOE

dearlyOE

liefOE

dearworth?c1225

chere1297

lovered1340

beloveda1375

dearworthyc1374

chary?a1400

sugaredc1475

tender1485

chereful1486

affectionatea1513

dilect1521

chare1583

ingling1595

darling1596

affected1600

in the love of1631

jewel-darling1643

adorable1653

fonded1684

endeared1841

dotey1852

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 417 He also departed this world, in the loue of all good men.

a1635 R. Sibbes Light from Heaven (1638) iii. 54 I know I am in the love of Christ: these are favours that hee bestowes onely upon his owne.

1647 S. Richardson Saints Desire Ep. Ded., sig. )(3 The people of God are in the love of God.

1664 W. Smith Briefe Answer unto Shetinah 28 We are in the love of God, and have fervent love to him, and one another.

P3. With to make.

a. to make love [after Old Occitan far amor (13th cent.), Middle French, French faire l'amour (16th cent.; 1622 with reference to sexual intercourse), or Italian far l'amore] .

(a) To pay amorous attention; to court, woo. Frequently with to. Also in extended use. Now somewhat archaic.

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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)]

to make love1567

address1677

to keep company (with)1725

suitor1777

spark1807

pitch1903

to pitch (the) woo1935

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 155^v The attire of a Cortisan, or woman makynge loue [Fr. femme qui fait l'Amour].

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 34^v A Phrase nowe there is which belongeth to your Shoppe boorde, that is to make loue.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 107 Demetrius..Made loue to Nedars daughter.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. ii. 58 Why man, they did make loue to this imployment.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 125 Thence it is, That I to your assistance doe make loue.

1663 A. Cowley Hymn to Light ii Thou golden Shower of a true Jove! Who does in thee descend, and Heav'n to Earth make love!

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 70 Nay, Mr. Tattle, If you make Love to me, you spoil my design, for I intended to make you my Confident.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 517. ¶2 The Widow Lady whom he had made Love to.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 79 You have been making love to me all this while.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 318 You..may make love, and play your pitty patties.

1829 W. Cobbett Advice to Young Men iv. §181 It is an old saying, ‘Praise the child, and you make love to the mother’.

a1845 T. Hood Poems (1846) I. 213 Oh there's nothing in life like making love.

1860 Sat. Rev. 9 306 How often..do we make love to the charms of cousins and avuncular expectations.

1887 W. Besant World Went xiv. 112 He would crack the crown of any man who ventured to make love to his girl.

1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 209 I thought I'd die laughing at his making love..and me with a husband doing his bit back in Auburn.

1927 L. Mayer Just between us Girls vii. 43 Honestly those nobilities can make love divinely.

1948 W. S. Maugham Catalina (1958) ii. 18 Her lover Diego no longer came to the window at night to make love to her through the iron grille.

1972 B. Everitt Cold Front v. 38 ‘Are we conversing or making love?’.. ‘Let's go into the slow lane for a minute.’

1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 153 Ay! To make love in Spanish, in a manner as intricate and devout as la Alhambra.

(b) Originally U.S. To engage in sexual intercourse, esp. considered as an act of love. Frequently with to, with.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse

playOE

to do (also work) one's kindc1225

bedc1315

couple1362

gendera1382

to go togetherc1390

to come togethera1398

meddlea1398

felterc1400

companya1425

swivec1440

japea1450

mellc1450

to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474

engender1483

fuck?a1513

conversec1540

jostlec1540

confederate1557

coeate1576

jumble1582

mate1589

do1594

conjoin1597

grind1598

consortc1600

pair1603

to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608

commix1610

cock1611

nibble1611

wap1611

bolstera1616

incorporate1622

truck1622

subagitate1623

occupya1626

minglec1630

copulate1632

fere1632

rut1637

joust1639

fanfreluche1653

carnalize1703

screw1725

pump1730

correspond1756

shag1770

hump1785

conjugate1790

diddle1879

to get some1889

fuckeec1890

jig-a-jig1896

perform1902

rabbit1919

jazz1920

sex1921

root1922

yentz1923

to make love1927

rock1931

mollock1932

to make (beautiful) music (together)1936

sleep1936

bang1937

lumber1938

to hop into bed (with)1951

to make out1951

ball1955

score1960

trick1965

to have it away1966

to roll in the hay1966

to get down1967

poontang1968

pork1968

shtup1969

shack1976

bonk1984

boink1985

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with

mingeOE

haveOE

knowc1175

ofliec1275

to lie with (or by)a1300

knowledgec1300

meetc1330

beliea1350

yknowc1350

touchc1384

deala1387

dightc1386

usea1387

takec1390

commona1400

to meet witha1400

servea1400

occupy?a1475

engender1483

jangle1488

to be busy with1525

to come in1530

visitc1540

niggle1567

mow1568

to mix one's thigh with1593

do1594

grind1598

pepper1600

yark1600

tumble1603

to taste of1607

compressc1611

jumble1611

mix?1614

consort?1615

tastea1616

bumfiddle1630

ingressa1631

sheet1637

carnal1643

night-work1654

bump1669

bumble1680

frig?c1680

fuck1707

stick1707

screw1719

soil1722

to do over1730

shag1770

hump1785

subagitatec1830

diddle1879

to give (someone) onec1882

charver1889

fuckeec1890

plugc1890

dick1892

to make a baby1911

to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912

jazz1920

rock1922

yentz1924

roll1926

to make love1927

shtupa1934

to give (or get) a tumble1934

shack1935

bang1937

to have it off1937

rump1937

tom1949

to hop into bed (with)1951

ball1955

to make it1957

plank1958

score1960

naughty1961

pull1965

pleasurea1967

to have away1968

to have off1968

dork1970

shaft1970

bonk1975

knob1984

boink1985

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1927 J. S. Bolan Deposition in L. Schlissel 3 Plays Mae West (1997) 218 Jimmy embraces Margie LaMont and goes through with her the business of making love to her by lying on top of her on a couch, each embracing the other.

1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms xviii. 114 Besides all the big times we had many small ways of making love and we tried putting thoughts in the other one's head while we were in different rooms.

1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days iv. 54 Why is master always so angry with me when he has made love to me?

1950 M. Peake Gormenghast xxix. 173 One of the Carvers made love to her and she had a baby.

1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xiv. 151 When you make love on a bunk,..the man has to bump his head.

1971 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 17/1 Couples who make love frequently are more likely to have sons than those who do so less often.

1986 D. Johnson Stars at Noon (1987) i. 17 Making love with him was like passing through a patch of fog.

1999 T. Parsons Man & Boy (2000) ii. 19 We were making love on the floor—or the futon, as Gina called it.

b. make love, not war: used as a pacifist anti-war slogan or (more generally in other contexts) as an appeal for peace and compassion. Also in to make love, not war.Originally associated with protest in the mid 1960s (esp. amongst the hippie counterculture) against U.S. military intervention in Vietnam.

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1965 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Mar. 19/1 You've seen those bumper stickers... And the latest in Berkeley, protesting Viet Nam, simply say ‘Make Love—Not War.’

1966 Times 2 Sept. 12/2 They intend to distribute badges stating ‘Make Love, not War’—a slogan used by C.N.D.

1970 Washington Post 14 Aug. b1/1 People [at Woodstock] got together.., shared food, water and dope, enjoyed music and conversation and made love, not war.

1982 Times 27 Jan. 8/7 Dr Comfort..believes that it [sc. recreational sex] may drain away aggression, as in the hippy slogan ‘Make Love Not War’.

2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse xx. 158 All those big houses in the subdivisions are filled with former hippies who said Make Love Not War and Never Trust Anyone over Thirty.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Sport section) 10 Football is one of the few areas of national life where Arabs and Jews happily work and play together... ‘It shows people that we should make love and not war.’

P4. (give, †commend, †remember) my love to — (also (with) love to —): a formula requesting that the person addressed (in speech or writing) convey the expression of the speaker's or writer's affection to a third person (often used in the subscription to a letter). Similarly also to send one's love; (with) love from —, and love (—). Cf. give v. 6d.

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the mind > emotion > love > with love from [phrase]

(with) love from —1615

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > expressions of remembrance

(give, commend, remember) my love to —1615

salute me1700

1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge iv. i. sig. I4 As you finde him setled, remember my loue and seruice to his Grace.

1618 T. Sherwin Let. in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) III. viii. 733 Remember my loue to all at Faire-hauen.

1630 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 378 Commend me to all our friends. My love and blessing to your brother and sisters [etc.].

1635 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 247 With M^r Gorges loue and myen to my daughter and your selfe.

1665 Earl of Marlborough Fair Warnings 3 I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance.

1684 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 220 May lowf to yow and Robert Goodien.

1742 Observ. Methodists 20 Give my dear Love to my dear Band Brethren.

1765 W. Cowper Let. 14 Aug. (1979) I. 111 My Love to all your Family.

1773 J. Wesley Let. 7 Oct. (1931) VI. 49 My wife sends her love; she has her old companion the gout.

1785 Lady Newdigate Let. May in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) iv. 67 Love from all here Adieu.

1793 W. Cowper Let. 24 Feb. (1984) IV. 298 With Mary's kind love.

1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 3 Love from all to all, and kisses as many as you please to give to the kissable part of the family.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ix. 89 Love to Tuppy.

1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek (1861) 183 ‘I will write and comfort your mother this very afternoon ——’ ‘Give her my love’, interposed Zack.

1875 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 23 Nov. (1917) I. xv. 268 We-all send love to you-all.

1911 W. Owen Let. 20 Sept. (1967) 83 Love to Mary and me brethren twain.

1921 A. Huxley Let. 21 Nov. (1969) 205 I will telephone or write about both these dates. Love from Aldous.

1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) xi. 188 Dear Cassandra, it was nice of you to write... Love from Neil.

1970 T. Southern Blue Movie iii. iv. 151 ‘Hans sends his love,’ Angela was saying, across the candlelit dining table.

2004 Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 Aug. 31 Give my love to Daddy if you see him.

P5. †to take (also nim) love to: to feel love or affection for. Obsolete.

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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) ix. 252 Ærest he him ondræt hellewite & bewepð his synna syððan he nimð eft lufe to gode: þonne onginð he to murcnienne & þincð him to lang hwænne he beo genumen of þyses lifes earfoðnyssum, & gebroht to ecere reste.

OE tr. Vitas Patrum in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 197 Ða gelicode him sona ðurh deofles tihtince þæs hæþenan sacerdos dohtor. Began þa niman swyðe micle lufe to hyre and to hyre fæder gewænde and hy him to gemæccan gyrnde.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 66 Meede..took so greete loue to Jason that be þe enchauntementis þat sche couthe..made charmes & lerned Jason to enchaunte.

1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 48/1 Another Dolphin, in the same manner, took love to a Child upon the Sea coast near to Pusoll.

P6. Proverbial uses.

(a) love is blind. [The conception of love as blind or as causing blindness is widespread, and is found in antiquity in both Greek and Latin literature.]

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c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 354 For loue is blynd alday and may nat see.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 36 Loue is blinde .

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiii. 119 And, that Love is blind, is extensible beyond the object of Poetry.

1746 A. Arbuthnot Mem. Miss Jenny Cameron 110 No, no, said Jenny; though Love is blind, I never heard that he was deaf.

1848 E. Bennett Trapper's Bride xi. 94 Love is blind, says the old proverb.

1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 35 They say as luv is blind.

1965 J. M. Brewer Worser Days 166 I don't make love by the garden gate, For love is blind, but the neighbors ain't.

2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 62 Aha, makes sense to you but love is blind, my friend.

(b) all's fair in love and war and variants.

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1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 31^v Anye impietie may lawfully be committed in loue, which is lawlesse.]

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxi. 138 Loue and warre are all one [Sp. el amor y la guerra son vna misma cosa]: and as in warre it is lawful to vse sleights and stratagems to ouercome the enemy: So in amorous strifes and competencies, Impostures and iuggling tricks are held for good, to attaine to the wished end.

1717 W. Taverner Artful Husband (new ed.) ii. 38 All advantages are fair in Love and War.

1789 Relapse I. xvi. 140 Tho' this was a confounded lie, my friend, ‘all is fair in love and war’.

1845 G. P. R. James Smuggler I. iv. 95 In love and war, every stratagem is fair, they say.

1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xlix. 434 All's fair in love and war, you know.

1905 Washington Post 9 June 2/5 New Yorker so busy wooing he forgot he had no funds. ‘All is fair in love and war,’ holds good in fiction, but not in the eyes of the police.

1979 ‘J. Gash’ Grail Tree v. 45 All's fair in love, war and antiques.

2005 Cosmopolitan Aug. 218/1 All's fair in love and war, so flick the trip switch in the fuse box. Without electricity, he's forced to surrender his console and get back to basics.

b. In various other proverbs and proverbial phrases.See also the love of money is the root of all evil at money n. Phrases 3a; to be off with the old love (before one is on with the new) at off adv. 4c; praise the child and you make love to the mother at praise v. 3b(b). [With love and a cough cannot be hid compare Middle French amour ne puet estre celee love cannot be hidden (14th cent.).]

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1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 97 Herof men saye a comyn prouerbe in england, that loue lasteth as longe as the money endureth.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 512 in Poems (1981) 23 The prouerb sayis, ‘Als gude lufe cummis as gais.’

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxv. f. liii Hote Loue is soone colde.

1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Garden of Pleasure f. 98^v Foure things cannot be kept close, Loue, the cough, fyre, and sorrowe.

1584 R. Greene Morando sig. B.iv^v Loue doth much but money doth all.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Amour Loue, and the Cough cannot be hidden.

a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 35 Love needs no teaching.

1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 55 Love ne're delights in a sorrowful man.

1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 140 Love and Pride stock Bedlam.

1777 C. Dibdin Quaker i. viii. 16 According unto the proverb, love maketh a wit of the fool.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. i. 102 If there are two things not to be hidden—love and a cough—I say there is a third, and that is ignorance.

1881 Appanoose (Iowa) Times 14 Apr. 1/4 It is said that love conquers all things.

1941 A. Kreymborg Poetic Drama Introd. 4 ‘The path of true love never runs smooth’ in the drama.

1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 458 Love and a cough cannot be hid.

2007 EveningNews (Edinb.) (Nexis) 8 Mar. 1 Many people say ‘love conquers all’ but that's not always true.

P7. there's no love lost between them (also us, etc.).

†a. In a positive sense: ‘their (our, etc.) affection is mutual’. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > love > with love from [phrase] > of mutual affection

there's no love lost between them (also us, etc.)1600

the mind > emotion > hatred > on account of enmity to [phrase] > they hate one another

there's no love lost between them (also us, etc.)1600

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. E.ii Car... Hee loues you well Signior. Sog. There shall be no loue lost Sir.

c1640 R. Davenport Surv. Sci. in Wks. (1890) 327 Oh my sweete! Sure there is no loue lost when yo^u two meete.

1696 W. Bates Acct. Life P. Henry (1699) 8 Dr. Busby..took a particular Kindness to him,..and there was no Love lost betwixt them.

1706 P. Motteux Don Quixote (1749) III. 266 I love him well, and there's no love lost between us.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. ix. vii. 229 I have a friendship for you..And I can assure thee, child, (said I), there is no love lost [Fr. que tu n'aimes pas un ingrat].

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 77 As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us.

1824 N. Drake Noontide Leisure II. 54 Give me your hand..and let me tell you..there is no love lost between us.

1828 C. Lamb New Year's Coming of Age in Elia 2nd Ser. 8 There was no love lost for that matter.

1839 S. Lover Hall Porter ii. i. 17 I'm obleeged to you, Misther Bowlt; and in throth there's no love lost between us, for I respect you, and always did.

b. In a negative sense: ‘they (we, etc.) have no love for each other’.

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?1622 J. Taylor Trav. Twelve-pence in Wks. (1630) i. 71 They loue me not, which makes 'em quickly spend me. But there's no great loue lost 'twixt them and mee, We keepe asunder and so best agree.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xxv. 134 He must needs say, there was no love lost between some of my family and him; but he had not deserved of them what they had of him.

1797 Posthumous Daughter I. xlii. 217 I do not like him at all, and I believe there is no love lost between us.

1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xvii. 134 There was not a great deal of love lost between Will and his half-sister.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life 121 Americans do not like these people and I believe there is no love lost on the other side.

1889 T. A. Trollope What I Remember III. 91 Between Italian and French radicals there is really no love lost.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xiii. 203 Once or twice he ran counter to Moellendorff, and I could see there was no love lost between these two.

1956 J. Lister Cent. of Conflict xvi. 273 There was no love lost between the seamen and soldiers of the mother country and the colonists, and the sooner the expedition moved on, the happier everyone would be.

1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 54 There was no love lost between the two of us. We'd never got on.

P8. love at first sight: the action or state of falling instantly in love with someone whom (or, by extension, something which) one has never previously seen.

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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > love at first sight

love at first sight1664

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 668 How myght it be That she so lyghtly louede Troylus Right for þe firste syght.

a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) i. 175 Where both deliberat, the loue is slight, Who euer lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?]

1664 T. Killigrew Comedies & Trag. (title) The princesse: or, Love at first sight.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xviii. 144 Love at first sight, answered Sir Charles, must indicate a mind prepared for impression, and a sudden gust of passion.

1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor V. vi. 70 Why this seems like love at first sight!

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xvi. 354 I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be.

1839 C. Brontë Let. 4 Aug. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. viii. 199 Well! thought I, I have heard of love at first sight, but this beats all!

1868 W. Collins Moonstone I. i. vii. 91 You have heard of beautiful young ladies falling in love at first sight, and have thought it natural enough.

1952 Scrutiny 18 273 We know that what we have here is no drama of romantic love-at-first-sight.

1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands iv. 89 In early youth, love at first sight, that epitome of passion, turns you into a zombie.

1975 D. Bagley Snow Tiger xvi. 138 Don't you believe in love at first sight?

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Feb. (Life section) 4/4 Phenylethylamine (PEA): A neurotransmitter which often causes the lover's ‘high’ many interpret as love at first sight.

P9. love's young dream: the idealized relationship of young lovers; the object of someone's love, a person regarded as the perfect lover; (also, sometimes depreciatively) the lovers themselves.

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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > romantic attachment between boy and girl

puppy love1810

love's young dream1819

calf-love1823

1819 Times 24 Sept. 1/1 A concert, selected from the Scotch and Irish Melodies... Song, ‘Love's young Dream’.

1821 T. Moore Love's Young Dream in Irish Melodies i. 77 But there's nothing half so sweet in life, As love's young dream!

1898 J. K. Jerome Second Thoughts 155 The stout lady, now regarded as a would-be blighter of love's young dream, was hustled into the back seat.

1920 J. Galsworthy Skin Game i. 33 I don't mean any tosh about love's young dream; but I do like being friends.

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xv. 307 There now!.. If there ain't love's young dream a-comin' up the path.

1960 B. Kops Dream of Peter Mann 54 Look at them, love's young dream.

1974 P. G. Wodehouse Aunts aren't Gentlemen iii. 20 I was helping a pal to celebrate the happy conclusion of love's young dream, and it may be that I became a mite polluted.

2001 J. Paisley Not for Glory 54 Noo I hink we shouldnae make nae mair noise an disturb love's young dream up aheid.

P10. euphemistic love in a cottage: marriage with insufficient means.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > viewed as more or less advantageous > marriage with insufficient means

love in a cottage1745

1745 C. Coffey Devil upon Two Sticks i. vi. 34 Love in a Cottage contentedly flows, And e'ery dear Minute is blest.

1763 G. Colman Deuce is in Him i. 9 To talk of living on bread and water, and the comforts of love in a cottage.

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee iv, in Tales Fashionable Life V. 302 Lady Clonbrony had not..the slightest notion, how anybody..could prefer, to a good house..and a proper establishment, what is called love in a cottage.

1878 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 274/1 Young people tried love in a cottage, and dwelt in dove-cotes beside their prouder kinsfolk.

1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 239 Here's more love in a cottage business for you.

1938 W. Empson Eng. Pastoral Poetry i. 55 She had chosen love in a cottage and could stick to it.

1954 J. A. Banks Prosperity & Parenthood viii. 116 George Vavasor, Phineas Finn, and Frank Greystock were not faced with the dilemma of love in a cottage versus luxury in the hall.

2006 Times (Nexis) 1 July 18 A choice between a triumphant return to high finance and love in a cottage.

P11. love in disguise: a dish consisting of calf's heart (occasionally sheep's heart) boiled, stuffed with forcemeat, and then baked.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > veal dishes

murrey1381

boucon1706

brusole1706

fricandeau1706

blanquette1747

ris de veau1820

Sefton1845

Wiener schnitzel1857

love in disguise1877

osso buco1908

vitello tonnato1935

saltimbocca1937

scallopini1950

piccata1963

veal parmigiana1963

veal piccata1973

1705 J. S. City & Country Recreation x. 58 Love in Disguise, and how esteemed, and the Danger there is in it more than when it appears in its naked Form.]

1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 282 Love in disguise is a calf's heart stuffed, then surrounded with forcemeat, next rolled in vermicelli, lastly deposited in a baking dish..and sent to the oven.

1937 Times 5 June 16/5 ‘Love in Disguise’ concealed within it a stuffed sheep's heart—an eighteenth-century culinary jest.

1958 W. Bickel tr. R. Hering Dict. Classical & Mod. Cookery 451 Love in disguise, calf's heart, soaked in water, larded, boiled until tender, dried, coated with veal forcemeat, rolled in crushed raw noodles, roasted in butter in oven and basted frequently.

1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 July vii. 14 British cuisine has always sounded entertaining. But, like love-in-disguise (which turns out to be baked, stuffed calf heart), what winds up on the plate can be harder to swallow.

P12. the love that dare not speak its name and variants.

a. Chiefly euphemistic. Homosexuality.In later use also occasionally applied to sexual preferences or practices having a status likened to that of homosexuality in the late 19th cent., as in being legally prohibited or socially unacceptable.

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1894 A. Douglas Two Loves in Chameleon Dec. 28 I am the love that dare not speak its name.

1895 O. Wilde in Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried (1912) ii. xiii. 271 The ‘Love that dare not speak its name’ in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan... It is in this century..so much misunderstood that it may be described as the ‘Love that dare not speak its name’.

1895 M. Beerbohm Let. 3 May in Lett. to R. Turner (1964) 102 [Oscar's] speech about the Love that dares not tell his name was simply wonderful, and carried the whole court right away, quite a tremendous burst of applause.

1950 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 29 Jan. 6/1 Gide's second proposition, that civilization benefits by toleration of ‘the love that dares not speak its name.’

1976 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 28 Oct. Their ‘loves’..were of the offbeat persuasion—you know, ‘the love that dare not speak its name’.

2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 5 June 41 We know too little about plural marriage to say that it inevitably results in pain... What gives Utah the right to repress this love that dare not speak its name?

2002 H. M. Benshoff in M. Jancovich Horror ii. vii. 99 The ‘love that dare not speak its name’ remains a shadowy Other which conversely works to bolster the equally constructed idea of a normative heterosexuality.

b. In extended use (frequently humorous): any (trivial) enthusiasm or predilection regarded as embarrassing, shameful, or inappropriate.

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1977 Times 27 May 2/8 Government ministers were privately ‘terribly fond of the arts’. Could that..be the sort of love that dare not speak its name?

1989 Independent (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Sport section) 28 In an age of hooliganism..football enthusiasm became the love that dare not speak its name.

1994 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. (Late Sports Final ed.) (Show section) 13 It's the love that dares not speak its name. No sane rocker would admit to loving the Carpenters.

2004 A. King London Jrnl. i. i. 11 ‘Slumming’, whereby a culturally respectable reader takes pleasure in mass-market reading, was in the nineteenth-century a love that dare not speak its name.

单词	the love that dare not speak its name
释义	> as lemmas the love that dare not speak its name Phrases P1. In prepositional phrases, chiefly with for. a. In asseverations and imprecations. (a) for the love of: for the sake of, on account of. Frequently in emphatic declarations and exclamations, as for the love of God (see also for (also †fore) God's love at god n. and int. Phrases 1b). †Also for my (our, etc.) love: for my (our, etc.) sake. In later use only when some sense of the literal meaning is implied (chiefly in exclamations); in early use often merely idiomatic, corresponding to classical Latin causā, gratiā for the sake of (used both with a noun in the genitive, e.g. honōris causā, honoris gratiā for the sake of honour, and with a pronominal adjective, e.g. meā causā, meā gratiā for my sake, tuā causā, tuā gratiā for your sake); cf. also classical Latin pro amōre, used with a possessive adjective, e.g. prō amōre nostro for our love, and in post-classical Latin also with a noun in the genitive, e.g. prō amōre studiorum for the love of studies (6th cent.). With for the love of God cf. post-classical Latin Dei causa (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), pro Dei amore (6th cent.). In Old English the noun was often in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [phrase] > for the sake of for my (our, etc.) loveeOE for the love ofeOE for (one's, a thing's) sakea1225 for sert ofa1400 for (also upon) a person's occasion1567 in favour of1605 for sake('s) sake1665 on occasion of (a person)1860 the mind > language > speech > request > [phrase] > earnest expressions for (also fore) God's loveeOE for the love of GodeOE for God's sakec1386 for (also of) all lovesa1400 for love's sakea1400 in (also a, o', on) God's namea1400 of all lovea1400 for pity1484 for pity's sake1484 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxii. 51 Ic wille [þe oðewan] forlustlice for ðinum lufum [L. tui causa libenter]. OE Blickling Homilies 23 Eal þis he þrowode for ure lufan & hælo. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 7 (MED) I bidde and warni, for ðe luue of gode and for ȝuer lieue saule, þat ȝie hatien..ðes awerȝhede senne. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14683 (MED) For þin dedes gode..We wil noght stan þe..Bot for þine werkes gain þe lau And for þe luue o þi missau. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 891 We shall destroy all the knyghtes of kyng Arthurs..for the love of sir Galahad. c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 163 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 74 Sa hyme, for þe luf of me, þat in my nam he baptis þe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxii Required the Englishe lordes for the loue of God that the truce might continue. 1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 790 The Sauages came to the Island..and tore the two vpper strakes, and caried them away onely for the loue of the iron in the boords. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 826 Impose some seruice on me for thy Loue. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 82 For the loue o'God peace. View more context for this quotation 1661 W. Ames Good Counsell & Advice 12 Let none have occasion to say, that for the love of your goods, your liberty or your lives, any of you have forsaken the way of truth. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Dec. (1948) I. 115 I begged Mr. Harley for the love of God to take some care about it. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 96 For the love of Mahomet, my dear Fakreddin, have done! 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 115 A Table Round, That was to be, for love of God and man And noble deeds, the flower of all the world. 1882 Cent. Mag. Feb. 488/1 For the love of heaven do something for me or I'll die, so I will. 1913 J. London God of his Fathers 69 For the love of your mother, hold your say, man. 1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back iii. 41 Can you not see that bloody machine-gun there? And for the love of God put your sights up. 1960 G. Durrell Zoo in my Luggage (1965) viii. 173 Don't, for the love of Allah, let her get into the china department. 1999 D. Mitchell Ghostwritten 340 ‘Oh for the love of God you two,’ muttered John. (b) colloquial. for the love of Mike [probably showing euphemistic substitution of the male forename Mike (compare Mike n.⁴) for God] : an exclamation of exasperation or surprise; ‘for goodness' sake!’ ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene loOE spi?c1225 how mischance——?c1330 with mischance!c1330 by my hoodc1374 by my sheath1532 by the mouse-foot1550 what the (also a) goodyear1570 bread and salt1575 by Jove1575 in (good) truly1576 by these hilts1598 by the Lord Harry1693 by the pody cody1693 by jingo!1694 splutter1707 by jing!1786 I snore1790 declare1811 by the hokey1825 shiver my timbers1834 by the (great) horn spoon1842 upon my Sam1879 for goodness' sake1885 yerra1892 for the love of Mike1896 by the hokey fiddle1922 knickers1971 1896 A. C. Ray Dick xii. 207 He sank back on the couch, remarking slowly to himself,— ‘Oh, for the love of Mike!’ 1901 S. Crane in Home Mag. N.Y. Jan. 77/2 ‘For the love of Mike, madam, what ails you?’ he spluttered. 1909 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 21 Dec. For the love of Mike, man, haven't you got a heart? 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 727 O move over your big carcass out of that for the love of Mike listen to him. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. i. ix. 57 For de love o' Mike, will you listen to dat, now. 1934 J. Brophy Waterfront i. 14 For the love of mike..shut those blasted windows. 1941 Penguin New Writing 8 91 Well, for the luvva Mike! 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 11 Tired? Well for the love of mike! What about me? 1957 A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia xv. 181 For the love of Mike, let's hope he's brave. 1999 J. Burchill Married Alive xii. 181 ‘Why wasn't she wearing any fucking clothes!’ I scream at the top of my voice. ‘Because she was under a waterfall, for the love of Mike—’. (c) for the love of Pete: see pete n. 1. b. for (also †of) all loves (also † upon all loves, † of all love): expressing a strong appeal or entreaty. Similarly (and now chiefly) for love's sake. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [phrase] > earnest expressions for (also fore) God's loveeOE for the love of GodeOE for God's sakec1386 for (also of) all lovesa1400 for love's sakea1400 in (also a, o', on) God's namea1400 of all lovea1400 for pity1484 for pity's sake1484 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 20380 Whi wepestou, what is þe? For alle loues [a1400 Vesp. For felaured, a1400 Gött. For felauschip] telle now me. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 1587 (MED) Sir, for alle loues, Lete me thy prisoneres seen! 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Amabo..Of felowshippe: of all loues: I pray the: as euer thou wilte doe me good turne. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 160 Speake, of all loues. I swoune almost with feare. View more context for this quotation 1618 J. Ussher Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. xxxiii. 64 I do intreat you of all Love, to look over the first Edition. 1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 185 She..intreateth him that was worshipped vpon the Altar, of all loves, mercies, and works of wonder, to restore her vnto her health. a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 31 O sweet Father, for Loues sake pittie me. c1646 in 2nd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 87/1 [10l.] which I desire you of all love to pay upon sight of this my letter. 1655 J. S. tr. B. della Rovere Phillis of Scyros iii. iv. 63 For loves sake, doe not press me to relate So long a story now. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. li. 257 For your own honour's sake, as well as for love's sake, join with me. 1793 C. Smith Old Manor House IV. viii. 196 Madam..begged him of all love to leave the country for fear of accidents. 1829 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 133 Beg her of all love to establish herself in a more collegiate part of Cambridge. 1871 E. S. P. Ward Silent Partner iv. 86 Here a minute, for love's sake, Catty. 1906 B. Carman Pipes of Pan 51 Gentle spirit, grieve not so, for love's sake! 1925 A. Lowell Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds 132 Christine clung to him with sobbing cries, Pleading for love's sake that he leave her not. 1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise iv. 62 Am I in childbed, for all love, that I should be plagued, smothered, destroyed with caudle? 1992 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 8 Sept. d8 Buckle up, for love's sake! c. for love: by reason of love (often placed in opposition to pecuniary considerations). Frequently in to marry for love. ΚΠ ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. xvi. sig. T. ij They that marie for loue, shall leade their lyfe in sorowe. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 45 [Johnson] It is commonly a weak man who marries for love. 1868 Sat. Rev. 14 Mar. 340/2 It is only the old-fashioned sort, not girls of the period pur sang, that marry for love. 1946 G. Hopkins tr. F. Mauriac Woman of Pharisees ix. 100 The dead woman was still in his eyes a heroine who might have died for love but would never have been false to her plighted word. 2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Oct. 43/2 Lavransdatter′s..plot might be summarized as the story of a Daddy's girl who refuses Daddy's choice of a husband and marries for love. d. for love or money: at any price, by any means. (Chiefly in negative contexts.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > [adverb] > by no means no waya1400 in no sauce1542 for love or money?1576 nil1581 nohow1775 not exactly1893 OE Blickling Homilies 43 Ne wandige na se mæssepreost..ne for feo, ne for nanes mannes lufon. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. i. 101 And neuer leue hem for loue ne for lacchyng of syluer. a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) l. 1484 in K. Brunner Mittelengl. Vers-roman über Richard Löwenherz (1913) 159 Neyþer ffor loue, neyther ffor eye.] ?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. G.iii My Lords Balife wil haue carts for loue or money. 1590 C. S. Briefe Resol. Right Relig. 18 Then should not men eyther for loue or money haue pardons. 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E3^v If you can (either for loue or money) prouide your selfe a lodging by the water side. 1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers ii. i. 11 This lewd Cozen of ours..has had all the women in Town that are to be had for Love or Money. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 Aug. (1948) II. 553 No more Ghosts or Murders now for Love or Money. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxxvi. 251 I'll be revenged of you, if there be a man to be had for love or money. 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) i. 18 Any person who, for love or money, might be induced to take the letter in his charge. 1869 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. Pref. iv He let me..use..Anglo-Saxon texts not elsewhere to be had for love or money. 1928 Times 30 Aug. 8/4 It appears to be impossible to get a hold of a useful rabbit-chasing ferret, for love or money. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 93 Gigolos are unobtainable in London for love or money, but unemployed actors and male models may be had by the desperate. 1997 C. B. Divakaruni Mistress of Spices 248 You couldn't buy them from a dealer, not for love or money. e. for love: (a) without stakes being wagered, for nothing (applied to the practice of playing a competitive game for the pleasure of playing); (b) (in extended use) for pleasure rather than profit (colloquial). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > mere amusement > [adverb] of or on the spleenc1460 for love1678 for fun1750 for the fun of the thing1751 for the fun of it1823 good for a laugh1835 for the ride1863 (just) for the hell of it1908 pour le sport1924 for (the) shits and giggles (also grins)1983 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 58 For these, at Beast, and L'hombre, [you] wooe, And play for Love, and Money too. 1813 Sporting Mag. 41 296 A match of..single-stick, was played..for what is technically termed Love and a Belly-full. 1823 C. Lamb New Year's Eve in Elia 63 I play over again for love, as the gamesters phrase it, games, for which I once paid so dear. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxxii. 383 Mrs. Todgers..proposed that..they should play for ‘love’. 1879 H. C. Merivale Lady of Lyons i. 4 Points be bothered, I plays for love. 1930 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 Oct. 8/3 She would be surprised to know that those games [sc. poker and twenty-one] were played for love. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana (1962) 154 He really does all this for love. You see, I saved his life once. a1969 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody (1992) 12 Jack Kerouac didn't write this book for money, he wrote it for love, he gave it away to the world. 2007 Northern Miner (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 7 They were disappointed they were only playing ‘for love’ because scores wouldn't be officially registered. P2. In prepositional phrases with in, into, out of. a. to fall (or †yfall, also †be taken, caught) in love: to become enamoured; (in extended use) to become passionately attached to, dote on. Frequently with with (in Old English with genitive of person). Also in early use †to yfall (also be brought) into love's dance.With on in quot. OE cf. on prep. 23. [Compare classical Latin in amorem incidere, Middle French tomber en amour (1538; French tomber amoureux (1696)).] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love [verb (intransitive)] > fall in love to fall (or yfall, also be taken, caught) in loveOE to yfall (also be brought) into love's danceOE assot1393 in by the week1534 to have got it badly1860 to take a fall1942 OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) i. 2 Þa ða se fæder þohte hwam he hi mihte healicost forgifan, þa gefeol his agen mod on hyre lufe mid unrihtre gewilnunge [L. pater..incidit in amorem filiae suae]. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) xlv So ferr ifallyng into lufis dance. ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.v Than in to loues daunce we were brought. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlviii. 162 He was taken in loue. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 544/2 I shall fall in love with her. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. iv. 37 Locryne fell in great phancy and loue with a faire Damosell. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 63^v Of which water who so drinketh shall be caught in loue. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. Argum. sig. E8^v He sees her face; doth fall in loue, and soone from her depart. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xliii. 134 With the pleasantnesse of which, they were so taken in loue, that [etc.]. 1675 J. Bunyan Light for Them that sit in Darkness 171 Can you behold a Crucified Christ and not Bleed, and not Mourn, and not fall in Love with him? 1724 M. Davys Reform'd Coquet 165 You are the first Woman under Thirty that ever fell in love with a grey Beard. 1768 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 25 A young lady of fashion..has fallen in love with my cousin. 1785 E. Inchbald Appearance is against Them i. ii. 11 You are a fellow that falls in love with every face you see. 1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 7 The most wretchedly romantic youth that ever fell in love..and turned his face moonwards. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess iv. 31 John Niel was no chicken, nor very likely to fall in love with the first pretty face he met. 1928 Daily Express 21 Feb. 9/2 There is a suggestion that he has fallen in love with a ‘shiksa’ (a Christian girl). 1969 E. Cleaver Post-prison Writings 23 I fell in love with the Black Panther Party immediately upon my first encounter with it. 1999 S. Orbach Impossibility of Sex (2000) 170 She feared that Charles and Maria would really hit if off; they would fall in love again, want to keep the baby, shut her out. b. in love (with): enamoured (of), filled with love (for); (in extended use) very fond (of), much addicted (to). In quot. a1398: †in heat (obsolete). See also mad in love at mad adv. 2b and madly in love at madly adv. 2a. [With the spec. use in quot. a1398 perhaps compare Middle French en ameur, Middle French, French en amour (of an animal) in heat (15th cent.), which apparently originally showed the reflex of an unattested post-classical Latin variant of classical Latin hūmor arising by folk-etymological association with classical Latin amor.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] amorousc1330 in love (with)a1398 in amours1523 passionate1534 browden1597 inamorate1606 enamoureda1631 épris1793 that way1865 kissy1873 pash1920 potty1923 keen1936 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 146^v Whanne þe swan is in loue, sche secheþ the female and plesiþ hire wiþ byclippinge of þe necke. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 46 He is for ladyis in luf a right lusty schadow. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 5 He would talke..of the stories of the Scripture, so sweetely..as I was woonderfully in loue with him. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 140 A woman cannot possibly doe any thing y^t may make her husband more in love with her, then to play the good huswife. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 76 I was in loue with my bed. View more context for this quotation 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 20 Quoth she, Y' have almost made m' in love With that, which did my pitty move. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xvii. 347 He that believes, without having any Reason for believing, may be in love with his own Fansies. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. x. 15 What, is the fool in love in earnest then? 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. xlviii. 19 She is in love with you, my noble fellow. 1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 113 Its conduct, we are told, made the excellent Falkland in love with the very name of parliament. 1881 L. B. Walford Dick Netherby xvii. 213 He was not himself in love. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xviii. 25 Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson iii. 28 Her soul was as a flower in its opetide. She was in love. 1941 P. Hamilton Hangover Square ii. i. 52 He was head over heels in love with her as soon as he had a moment to be near her. 1969 J. McPhee Levels of Game 10 He is in love with his work. He knows the exact height and tensile strength of the corporate ladder. 1996 Rolling Stone 18 Apr. 80/1 They trudge dutifully through the tacky clichés of legal eagles in love. c. out of love (with): not or no longer in love (with); (in extended use) disenchanted or disgusted (with). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective] irk1303 wlatfula1387 squeamous1398 irksome1435 fastidiousa1535 loathsome1577 out of love (with)1577 squeamish1581 loathingc1595 sick1600 distastive1611 distastefula1616 detestant1650 distasting1654 1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians xli. f. 292 Thou bee so farre out of loue with thy sonne [Fr. tu es si desbordé contre ton fils], that thou art vnwylling too see him. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 10 Hee seemeth either too farre in loue with himselfe, or to farre out of loue with others. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 202 I should haue scratch'd out your vnseeing eyes, To make my Master out of loue with thee. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 173 I am so out of loue with life. View more context for this quotation 1680 E. Fowler Libertas Evangelica ii. vii. 80 Atonement is..a most effectual means, to this farther End, the making us out of love with Sin. 1722 D. Defoe Relig. Courtship i. i. 5 What's the matter, that you are so out of love with the World all on a sudden? 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xi. 83 Lord W.'s animosity to my father made him out of love with his name. 1796 S. Lee Almeyda iv. i. 52 I, like thee, Grow out of love with reason. 1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. ix. 278 Bellamy tells me the strangest story of her having been, since I left London, in love and out of love with John Falconer. 1867 A. Cary Bishop's Son x. 192 Perhaps every man who is out of love thinks pretty much after this fashion of his friend who is in love. 1890 J. Todhunter Sicilian Idyll i. 8 Hope shuns me: I am out of love with life. 1914 B. Carman Earth Deities 72 Whatever can have come his way To put him out of love to-day? 1955 R. Campbell in E. W. Tedlock D. Thomas (1960) i. 45 He was never out of love with his beautiful wife and muse, Caitlin. 1992 A. V. Roberts Morning's Gate xvi. 282 In and out of love with amazing regularity and unflagging enthusiasm, Polly was passionate about most things. d. to fall out of love (with): to cease to be in love (with); (in extended use) to become disenchanted or disgusted (with). ΚΠ 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Metamorph. Ajax sig. Ciiij^v (I heard of a truth, that a great Lady that loued Parsnips very well, after she had heard how they grew, could neuer abide them) and I would be loath, to cause any to fall out of loue with so good a dish. a1653 H. Binning Serm. in Wks. (1735) 284/2 God never begins to be pleasant and lovely to a Soul, til it begins to fall out of Love with itself, and grow lothsome in its own Eyes. 1701 R. Calder Schola Sepulchri 38 The belief of the Resurrection will teach us to fall out of Love with the World,..there is nothing in it but Vanity and Miserie. 1856 Littell's Living Age 5 July 34/2 No man falls out of love so safely as a man who falls in love with a beauty. 1877 Catholic World July 530/1 He was always falling in love with any pretty face that struck his fancy, and then just as easily falling out of love with an unwounded heart. 1915 Amer. Anthropologist 17 601 Despite our ingenuity, we do grow up, we grow old, we fall in love, we fall out of love. 2002 Times 11 Feb. i. 13/2 There are signs that voters have fallen out of love with the party. †e. in the love of: beloved by. Frequently in the love of God. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [adjective] lief and deara900 dearOE sweetOE lovedOE dearlyOE liefOE dearworth?c1225 chere1297 lovered1340 beloveda1375 dearworthyc1374 chary?a1400 sugaredc1475 tender1485 chereful1486 affectionatea1513 dilect1521 chare1583 ingling1595 darling1596 affected1600 in the love of1631 jewel-darling1643 adorable1653 fonded1684 endeared1841 dotey1852 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 417 He also departed this world, in the loue of all good men. a1635 R. Sibbes Light from Heaven (1638) iii. 54 I know I am in the love of Christ: these are favours that hee bestowes onely upon his owne. 1647 S. Richardson Saints Desire Ep. Ded., sig. )(3 The people of God are in the love of God. 1664 W. Smith Briefe Answer unto Shetinah 28 We are in the love of God, and have fervent love to him, and one another. P3. With to make. a. to make love [after Old Occitan far amor (13th cent.), Middle French, French faire l'amour (16th cent.; 1622 with reference to sexual intercourse), or Italian far l'amore] . (a) To pay amorous attention; to court, woo. Frequently with to. Also in extended use. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)] to make love1567 address1677 to keep company (with)1725 suitor1777 spark1807 pitch1903 to pitch (the) woo1935 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 155^v The attire of a Cortisan, or woman makynge loue [Fr. femme qui fait l'Amour]. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 34^v A Phrase nowe there is which belongeth to your Shoppe boorde, that is to make loue. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 107 Demetrius..Made loue to Nedars daughter. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. ii. 58 Why man, they did make loue to this imployment. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 125 Thence it is, That I to your assistance doe make loue. View more context for this quotation 1663 A. Cowley Hymn to Light ii Thou golden Shower of a true Jove! Who does in thee descend, and Heav'n to Earth make love! 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 70 Nay, Mr. Tattle, If you make Love to me, you spoil my design, for I intended to make you my Confident. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 517. ¶2 The Widow Lady whom he had made Love to. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 79 You have been making love to me all this while. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 318 You..may make love, and play your pitty patties. 1829 W. Cobbett Advice to Young Men iv. §181 It is an old saying, ‘Praise the child, and you make love to the mother’. a1845 T. Hood Poems (1846) I. 213 Oh there's nothing in life like making love. 1860 Sat. Rev. 9 306 How often..do we make love to the charms of cousins and avuncular expectations. 1887 W. Besant World Went xiv. 112 He would crack the crown of any man who ventured to make love to his girl. 1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 209 I thought I'd die laughing at his making love..and me with a husband doing his bit back in Auburn. 1927 L. Mayer Just between us Girls vii. 43 Honestly those nobilities can make love divinely. 1948 W. S. Maugham Catalina (1958) ii. 18 Her lover Diego no longer came to the window at night to make love to her through the iron grille. 1972 B. Everitt Cold Front v. 38 ‘Are we conversing or making love?’.. ‘Let's go into the slow lane for a minute.’ 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 153 Ay! To make love in Spanish, in a manner as intricate and devout as la Alhambra. (b) Originally U.S. To engage in sexual intercourse, esp. considered as an act of love. Frequently with to, with. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with mingeOE haveOE knowc1175 ofliec1275 to lie with (or by)a1300 knowledgec1300 meetc1330 beliea1350 yknowc1350 touchc1384 deala1387 dightc1386 usea1387 takec1390 commona1400 to meet witha1400 servea1400 occupy?a1475 engender1483 jangle1488 to be busy with1525 to come in1530 visitc1540 niggle1567 mow1568 to mix one's thigh with1593 do1594 grind1598 pepper1600 yark1600 tumble1603 to taste of1607 compressc1611 jumble1611 mix?1614 consort?1615 tastea1616 bumfiddle1630 ingressa1631 sheet1637 carnal1643 night-work1654 bump1669 bumble1680 frig?c1680 fuck1707 stick1707 screw1719 soil1722 to do over1730 shag1770 hump1785 subagitatec1830 diddle1879 to give (someone) onec1882 charver1889 fuckeec1890 plugc1890 dick1892 to make a baby1911 to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912 jazz1920 rock1922 yentz1924 roll1926 to make love1927 shtupa1934 to give (or get) a tumble1934 shack1935 bang1937 to have it off1937 rump1937 tom1949 to hop into bed (with)1951 ball1955 to make it1957 plank1958 score1960 naughty1961 pull1965 pleasurea1967 to have away1968 to have off1968 dork1970 shaft1970 bonk1975 knob1984 boink1985 fand- 1927 J. S. Bolan Deposition in L. Schlissel 3 Plays Mae West (1997) 218 Jimmy embraces Margie LaMont and goes through with her the business of making love to her by lying on top of her on a couch, each embracing the other. 1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms xviii. 114 Besides all the big times we had many small ways of making love and we tried putting thoughts in the other one's head while we were in different rooms. 1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days iv. 54 Why is master always so angry with me when he has made love to me? 1950 M. Peake Gormenghast xxix. 173 One of the Carvers made love to her and she had a baby. 1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xiv. 151 When you make love on a bunk,..the man has to bump his head. 1971 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 17/1 Couples who make love frequently are more likely to have sons than those who do so less often. 1986 D. Johnson Stars at Noon (1987) i. 17 Making love with him was like passing through a patch of fog. 1999 T. Parsons Man & Boy (2000) ii. 19 We were making love on the floor—or the futon, as Gina called it. b. make love, not war: used as a pacifist anti-war slogan or (more generally in other contexts) as an appeal for peace and compassion. Also in to make love, not war.Originally associated with protest in the mid 1960s (esp. amongst the hippie counterculture) against U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. ΚΠ 1965 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Mar. 19/1 You've seen those bumper stickers... And the latest in Berkeley, protesting Viet Nam, simply say ‘Make Love—Not War.’ 1966 Times 2 Sept. 12/2 They intend to distribute badges stating ‘Make Love, not War’—a slogan used by C.N.D. 1970 Washington Post 14 Aug. b1/1 People [at Woodstock] got together.., shared food, water and dope, enjoyed music and conversation and made love, not war. 1982 Times 27 Jan. 8/7 Dr Comfort..believes that it [sc. recreational sex] may drain away aggression, as in the hippy slogan ‘Make Love Not War’. 2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse xx. 158 All those big houses in the subdivisions are filled with former hippies who said Make Love Not War and Never Trust Anyone over Thirty. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Sport section) 10 Football is one of the few areas of national life where Arabs and Jews happily work and play together... ‘It shows people that we should make love and not war.’ P4. (give, †commend, †remember) my love to — (also (with) love to —): a formula requesting that the person addressed (in speech or writing) convey the expression of the speaker's or writer's affection to a third person (often used in the subscription to a letter). Similarly also to send one's love; (with) love from —, and love (—). Cf. give v. 6d. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > with love from [phrase] (with) love from —1615 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > expressions of remembrance (give, commend, remember) my love to —1615 salute me1700 1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge iv. i. sig. I4 As you finde him setled, remember my loue and seruice to his Grace. 1618 T. Sherwin Let. in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) III. viii. 733 Remember my loue to all at Faire-hauen. 1630 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 378 Commend me to all our friends. My love and blessing to your brother and sisters [etc.]. 1635 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 247 With M^r Gorges loue and myen to my daughter and your selfe. 1665 Earl of Marlborough Fair Warnings 3 I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance. 1684 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 220 May lowf to yow and Robert Goodien. 1742 Observ. Methodists 20 Give my dear Love to my dear Band Brethren. 1765 W. Cowper Let. 14 Aug. (1979) I. 111 My Love to all your Family. 1773 J. Wesley Let. 7 Oct. (1931) VI. 49 My wife sends her love; she has her old companion the gout. 1785 Lady Newdigate Let. May in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) iv. 67 Love from all here Adieu. 1793 W. Cowper Let. 24 Feb. (1984) IV. 298 With Mary's kind love. 1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 3 Love from all to all, and kisses as many as you please to give to the kissable part of the family. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ix. 89 Love to Tuppy. 1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek (1861) 183 ‘I will write and comfort your mother this very afternoon ——’ ‘Give her my love’, interposed Zack. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 23 Nov. (1917) I. xv. 268 We-all send love to you-all. 1911 W. Owen Let. 20 Sept. (1967) 83 Love to Mary and me brethren twain. 1921 A. Huxley Let. 21 Nov. (1969) 205 I will telephone or write about both these dates. Love from Aldous. 1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) xi. 188 Dear Cassandra, it was nice of you to write... Love from Neil. 1970 T. Southern Blue Movie iii. iv. 151 ‘Hans sends his love,’ Angela was saying, across the candlelit dining table. 2004 Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 Aug. 31 Give my love to Daddy if you see him. P5. †to take (also nim) love to: to feel love or affection for. Obsolete. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) ix. 252 Ærest he him ondræt hellewite & bewepð his synna syððan he nimð eft lufe to gode: þonne onginð he to murcnienne & þincð him to lang hwænne he beo genumen of þyses lifes earfoðnyssum, & gebroht to ecere reste. OE tr. Vitas Patrum in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 197 Ða gelicode him sona ðurh deofles tihtince þæs hæþenan sacerdos dohtor. Began þa niman swyðe micle lufe to hyre and to hyre fæder gewænde and hy him to gemæccan gyrnde. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 66 Meede..took so greete loue to Jason that be þe enchauntementis þat sche couthe..made charmes & lerned Jason to enchaunte. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 48/1 Another Dolphin, in the same manner, took love to a Child upon the Sea coast near to Pusoll. P6. Proverbial uses. a. (a) love is blind. [The conception of love as blind or as causing blindness is widespread, and is found in antiquity in both Greek and Latin literature.] ΚΠ c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 354 For loue is blynd alday and may nat see. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 36 Loue is blinde . View more context for this quotation 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiii. 119 And, that Love is blind, is extensible beyond the object of Poetry. 1746 A. Arbuthnot Mem. Miss Jenny Cameron 110 No, no, said Jenny; though Love is blind, I never heard that he was deaf. 1848 E. Bennett Trapper's Bride xi. 94 Love is blind, says the old proverb. 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 35 They say as luv is blind. 1965 J. M. Brewer Worser Days 166 I don't make love by the garden gate, For love is blind, but the neighbors ain't. 2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 62 Aha, makes sense to you but love is blind, my friend. (b) all's fair in love and war and variants. ΚΠ 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 31^v Anye impietie may lawfully be committed in loue, which is lawlesse.] 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxi. 138 Loue and warre are all one [Sp. el amor y la guerra son vna misma cosa]: and as in warre it is lawful to vse sleights and stratagems to ouercome the enemy: So in amorous strifes and competencies, Impostures and iuggling tricks are held for good, to attaine to the wished end. 1717 W. Taverner Artful Husband (new ed.) ii. 38 All advantages are fair in Love and War. 1789 Relapse I. xvi. 140 Tho' this was a confounded lie, my friend, ‘all is fair in love and war’. 1845 G. P. R. James Smuggler I. iv. 95 In love and war, every stratagem is fair, they say. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xlix. 434 All's fair in love and war, you know. 1905 Washington Post 9 June 2/5 New Yorker so busy wooing he forgot he had no funds. ‘All is fair in love and war,’ holds good in fiction, but not in the eyes of the police. 1979 ‘J. Gash’ Grail Tree v. 45 All's fair in love, war and antiques. 2005 Cosmopolitan Aug. 218/1 All's fair in love and war, so flick the trip switch in the fuse box. Without electricity, he's forced to surrender his console and get back to basics. b. In various other proverbs and proverbial phrases.See also the love of money is the root of all evil at money n. Phrases 3a; to be off with the old love (before one is on with the new) at off adv. 4c; praise the child and you make love to the mother at praise v. 3b(b). [With love and a cough cannot be hid compare Middle French amour ne puet estre celee love cannot be hidden (14th cent.).] ΚΠ 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 97 Herof men saye a comyn prouerbe in england, that loue lasteth as longe as the money endureth. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 512 in Poems (1981) 23 The prouerb sayis, ‘Als gude lufe cummis as gais.’ a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxv. f. liii Hote Loue is soone colde. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Garden of Pleasure f. 98^v Foure things cannot be kept close, Loue, the cough, fyre, and sorrowe. 1584 R. Greene Morando sig. B.iv^v Loue doth much but money doth all. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Amour Loue, and the Cough cannot be hidden. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 35 Love needs no teaching. 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 55 Love ne're delights in a sorrowful man. 1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 140 Love and Pride stock Bedlam. 1777 C. Dibdin Quaker i. viii. 16 According unto the proverb, love maketh a wit of the fool. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. i. 102 If there are two things not to be hidden—love and a cough—I say there is a third, and that is ignorance. 1881 Appanoose (Iowa) Times 14 Apr. 1/4 It is said that love conquers all things. 1941 A. Kreymborg Poetic Drama Introd. 4 ‘The path of true love never runs smooth’ in the drama. 1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 458 Love and a cough cannot be hid. 2007 EveningNews (Edinb.) (Nexis) 8 Mar. 1 Many people say ‘love conquers all’ but that's not always true. P7. there's no love lost between them (also us, etc.). †a. In a positive sense: ‘their (our, etc.) affection is mutual’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > with love from [phrase] > of mutual affection there's no love lost between them (also us, etc.)1600 the mind > emotion > hatred > on account of enmity to [phrase] > they hate one another there's no love lost between them (also us, etc.)1600 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. E.ii Car... Hee loues you well Signior. Sog. There shall be no loue lost Sir. View more context for this quotation c1640 R. Davenport Surv. Sci. in Wks. (1890) 327 Oh my sweete! Sure there is no loue lost when yo^u two meete. 1696 W. Bates Acct. Life P. Henry (1699) 8 Dr. Busby..took a particular Kindness to him,..and there was no Love lost betwixt them. 1706 P. Motteux Don Quixote (1749) III. 266 I love him well, and there's no love lost between us. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. ix. vii. 229 I have a friendship for you..And I can assure thee, child, (said I), there is no love lost [Fr. que tu n'aimes pas un ingrat]. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 77 As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us. 1824 N. Drake Noontide Leisure II. 54 Give me your hand..and let me tell you..there is no love lost between us. 1828 C. Lamb New Year's Coming of Age in Elia 2nd Ser. 8 There was no love lost for that matter. 1839 S. Lover Hall Porter ii. i. 17 I'm obleeged to you, Misther Bowlt; and in throth there's no love lost between us, for I respect you, and always did. b. In a negative sense: ‘they (we, etc.) have no love for each other’. ΚΠ ?1622 J. Taylor Trav. Twelve-pence in Wks. (1630) i. 71 They loue me not, which makes 'em quickly spend me. But there's no great loue lost 'twixt them and mee, We keepe asunder and so best agree. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xxv. 134 He must needs say, there was no love lost between some of my family and him; but he had not deserved of them what they had of him. 1797 Posthumous Daughter I. xlii. 217 I do not like him at all, and I believe there is no love lost between us. 1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xvii. 134 There was not a great deal of love lost between Will and his half-sister. 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life 121 Americans do not like these people and I believe there is no love lost on the other side. 1889 T. A. Trollope What I Remember III. 91 Between Italian and French radicals there is really no love lost. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xiii. 203 Once or twice he ran counter to Moellendorff, and I could see there was no love lost between these two. 1956 J. Lister Cent. of Conflict xvi. 273 There was no love lost between the seamen and soldiers of the mother country and the colonists, and the sooner the expedition moved on, the happier everyone would be. 1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 54 There was no love lost between the two of us. We'd never got on. P8. love at first sight: the action or state of falling instantly in love with someone whom (or, by extension, something which) one has never previously seen. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > love at first sight love at first sight1664 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 668 How myght it be That she so lyghtly louede Troylus Right for þe firste syght. a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) i. 175 Where both deliberat, the loue is slight, Who euer lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?] 1664 T. Killigrew Comedies & Trag. (title) The princesse: or, Love at first sight. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xviii. 144 Love at first sight, answered Sir Charles, must indicate a mind prepared for impression, and a sudden gust of passion. 1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor V. vi. 70 Why this seems like love at first sight! 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xvi. 354 I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. 1839 C. Brontë Let. 4 Aug. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. viii. 199 Well! thought I, I have heard of love at first sight, but this beats all! 1868 W. Collins Moonstone I. i. vii. 91 You have heard of beautiful young ladies falling in love at first sight, and have thought it natural enough. 1952 Scrutiny 18 273 We know that what we have here is no drama of romantic love-at-first-sight. 1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands iv. 89 In early youth, love at first sight, that epitome of passion, turns you into a zombie. 1975 D. Bagley Snow Tiger xvi. 138 Don't you believe in love at first sight? 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Feb. (Life section) 4/4 Phenylethylamine (PEA): A neurotransmitter which often causes the lover's ‘high’ many interpret as love at first sight. P9. love's young dream: the idealized relationship of young lovers; the object of someone's love, a person regarded as the perfect lover; (also, sometimes depreciatively) the lovers themselves. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > romantic attachment between boy and girl puppy love1810 love's young dream1819 calf-love1823 1819 Times 24 Sept. 1/1 A concert, selected from the Scotch and Irish Melodies... Song, ‘Love's young Dream’. 1821 T. Moore Love's Young Dream in Irish Melodies i. 77 But there's nothing half so sweet in life, As love's young dream! 1898 J. K. Jerome Second Thoughts 155 The stout lady, now regarded as a would-be blighter of love's young dream, was hustled into the back seat. 1920 J. Galsworthy Skin Game i. 33 I don't mean any tosh about love's young dream; but I do like being friends. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xv. 307 There now!.. If there ain't love's young dream a-comin' up the path. 1960 B. Kops Dream of Peter Mann 54 Look at them, love's young dream. 1974 P. G. Wodehouse Aunts aren't Gentlemen iii. 20 I was helping a pal to celebrate the happy conclusion of love's young dream, and it may be that I became a mite polluted. 2001 J. Paisley Not for Glory 54 Noo I hink we shouldnae make nae mair noise an disturb love's young dream up aheid. P10. euphemistic love in a cottage: marriage with insufficient means. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > viewed as more or less advantageous > marriage with insufficient means love in a cottage1745 1745 C. Coffey Devil upon Two Sticks i. vi. 34 Love in a Cottage contentedly flows, And e'ery dear Minute is blest. 1763 G. Colman Deuce is in Him i. 9 To talk of living on bread and water, and the comforts of love in a cottage. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee iv, in Tales Fashionable Life V. 302 Lady Clonbrony had not..the slightest notion, how anybody..could prefer, to a good house..and a proper establishment, what is called love in a cottage. 1878 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 274/1 Young people tried love in a cottage, and dwelt in dove-cotes beside their prouder kinsfolk. 1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 239 Here's more love in a cottage business for you. 1938 W. Empson Eng. Pastoral Poetry i. 55 She had chosen love in a cottage and could stick to it. 1954 J. A. Banks Prosperity & Parenthood viii. 116 George Vavasor, Phineas Finn, and Frank Greystock were not faced with the dilemma of love in a cottage versus luxury in the hall. 2006 Times (Nexis) 1 July 18 A choice between a triumphant return to high finance and love in a cottage. P11. love in disguise: a dish consisting of calf's heart (occasionally sheep's heart) boiled, stuffed with forcemeat, and then baked. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > veal dishes murrey1381 boucon1706 brusole1706 fricandeau1706 blanquette1747 ris de veau1820 Sefton1845 Wiener schnitzel1857 love in disguise1877 osso buco1908 vitello tonnato1935 saltimbocca1937 scallopini1950 piccata1963 veal parmigiana1963 veal piccata1973 1705 J. S. City & Country Recreation x. 58 Love in Disguise, and how esteemed, and the Danger there is in it more than when it appears in its naked Form.] 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 282 Love in disguise is a calf's heart stuffed, then surrounded with forcemeat, next rolled in vermicelli, lastly deposited in a baking dish..and sent to the oven. 1937 Times 5 June 16/5 ‘Love in Disguise’ concealed within it a stuffed sheep's heart—an eighteenth-century culinary jest. 1958 W. Bickel tr. R. Hering Dict. Classical & Mod. Cookery 451 Love in disguise, calf's heart, soaked in water, larded, boiled until tender, dried, coated with veal forcemeat, rolled in crushed raw noodles, roasted in butter in oven and basted frequently. 1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 July vii. 14 British cuisine has always sounded entertaining. But, like love-in-disguise (which turns out to be baked, stuffed calf heart), what winds up on the plate can be harder to swallow. P12. the love that dare not speak its name and variants. a. Chiefly euphemistic. Homosexuality.In later use also occasionally applied to sexual preferences or practices having a status likened to that of homosexuality in the late 19th cent., as in being legally prohibited or socially unacceptable. ΚΠ 1894 A. Douglas Two Loves in Chameleon Dec. 28 I am the love that dare not speak its name. 1895 O. Wilde in Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried (1912) ii. xiii. 271 The ‘Love that dare not speak its name’ in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan... It is in this century..so much misunderstood that it may be described as the ‘Love that dare not speak its name’. 1895 M. Beerbohm Let. 3 May in Lett. to R. Turner (1964) 102 [Oscar's] speech about the Love that dares not tell his name was simply wonderful, and carried the whole court right away, quite a tremendous burst of applause. 1950 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 29 Jan. 6/1 Gide's second proposition, that civilization benefits by toleration of ‘the love that dares not speak its name.’ 1976 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 28 Oct. Their ‘loves’..were of the offbeat persuasion—you know, ‘the love that dare not speak its name’. 2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 5 June 41 We know too little about plural marriage to say that it inevitably results in pain... What gives Utah the right to repress this love that dare not speak its name? 2002 H. M. Benshoff in M. Jancovich Horror ii. vii. 99 The ‘love that dare not speak its name’ remains a shadowy Other which conversely works to bolster the equally constructed idea of a normative heterosexuality. b. In extended use (frequently humorous): any (trivial) enthusiasm or predilection regarded as embarrassing, shameful, or inappropriate. ΚΠ 1977 Times 27 May 2/8 Government ministers were privately ‘terribly fond of the arts’. Could that..be the sort of love that dare not speak its name? 1989 Independent (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Sport section) 28 In an age of hooliganism..football enthusiasm became the love that dare not speak its name. 1994 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. (Late Sports Final ed.) (Show section) 13 It's the love that dares not speak its name. No sane rocker would admit to loving the Carpenters. 2004 A. King London Jrnl. i. i. 11 ‘Slumming’, whereby a culturally respectable reader takes pleasure in mass-market reading, was in the nineteenth-century a love that dare not speak its name. extracted from loven.¹ < as lemmas
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