单词 | unlove |
释义 | unloven. Lack of love; (more strongly) hatred, dislike. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > absence of love unlove1611 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Disamore, the contrary of loue, vnloue, hate. 1833 H. Ellison Madmoments II. 249 Heav'n is But Love, be it on Earth, or up above! And both alike, thro' Unlove, thou must miss! 1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 58 Souls purified..from passion..and all unlove. 1964 N. Friedman E. E. Cummings i. 7 Not only does love transform unlove; it needs that unlove in order to come into being. 2008 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 13 Mar. 10 A young woman..who struck out on her own at 17, and kept learning hard lessons in the ways of unlove. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unlovev. 1. transitive. To cease to love (a person or thing). In some uses perhaps: not to love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > hate inwardly or intensely [verb (transitive)] > cease to love unlovea1413 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1698 I ne kan..with-Inne myn herte fynde To vnlouen yow. 1575 R. Peterson tr. G. della Casa Galateo 8 Ynough to cause men,..if they did loue vs, to vnloue vs againe. 1612 W. Martyn Youths Instr. 69 She will aduise you..to vnloue her from whom you can get no exchange of loue. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 122 How then shall I unlove the world, which hath been my bosome Darling so long? 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 310. ⁋1 They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. iii. 68 I have told you..that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now. 1897 Record (Royal Center, Indiana) 29 Jan. He believed it to be his duty to unlove her if he could. 1957 A. Mannheimer & F. Kohner Stalin Allee ii. 64 If you love him, then unlove him. 2004 Curriculum Inq. 34 153 We had to learn to unlove what we treasured. 2. intransitive. To cease to love. ΚΠ 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. N.iv More apt to brawling and chiding,..that loue and vnloue [It. disamano] all at a time. 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 10 If we returne not to our former state of freedome, and unlove againe. 1712 R. Steele Spectator Index sig. Gg2/1 Biddy Doughbake, who having been bid to love cannot unlove. 1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing xxv We never know how we love till we try to unlove. 1882 E. J. Worboise Sissie xv. 148 I am sure one cannot unlove, just because one's esteem is lessened! 1969 Mass. Rev. 10 479 The only free man in the script, Free to love and unlove. 2010 Sunday Times (Scottish ed.) (Nexis) 5 Sept. 7 Of course I still love him; how can you unlove? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611v.a1413 |
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