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Free love   /fri ləv/   Listen
noun
Love  n.  
1.
A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. "Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own."
2.
Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. "He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored."
3.
Courtship; chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. "Demetrius... Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul."
4.
Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; opposed to hate; often with of and an object. "Love, and health to all." "Smit with the love of sacred song." "The love of science faintly warmed his breast."
5.
Due gratitude and reverence to God. "Keep yourselves in the love of God."
6.
The object of affection; often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading. "Trust me, love." "Open the temple gates unto my love."
7.
Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus. "Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow." "Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love."
8.
A thin silk stuff. (Obs.)
9.
(Bot.) A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).
10.
Nothing; no points scored on one side; used in counting score at tennis, etc. "He won the match by three sets to love."
11.
Sexual intercourse; a euphemism. Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked, love-taught, etc.
A labor of love, a labor undertaken on account of regard for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward.
Free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See Free love.
Free lover, one who avows or practices free love.
In love, in the act of loving; said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love.
Love apple (Bot.), the tomato.
Love bird (Zool.), any one of several species of small, short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus Agapornis, and allied genera. They are mostly from Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are celebrated for the affection which they show for their mates.
Love broker, a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue.
Love charm, a charm for exciting love.
Love child. an illegitimate child.
Love day, a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. (Obs.)
Love drink, a love potion; a philter.
Love favor, something given to be worn in token of love.
Love feast, a religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agapae of the early Christians.
Love feat, the gallant act of a lover.
Love game, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished person or party does not score a point.
Love grass. (Bot.) Any grass of the genus Eragrostis.
Love-in-a-mist. (Bot.)
(a)
An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts.
(b)
The West Indian Passiflora foetida, which has similar bracts.
Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy. "A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness."
Love juice, juice of a plant supposed to produce love.
Love knot, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection.
Love lass, a sweetheart.
Love letter, a letter of courtship.
Love-lies-bleeding (Bot.), a species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
Love match, a marriage brought about by love alone.
Love potion, a compounded draught intended to excite love, or venereal desire.
Love rites, sexual intercourse.
Love scene, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the stage.
Love suit, courtship.
Of all loves, for the sake of all love; by all means. (Obs.) "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again."
The god of love, or The Love god, Cupid.
To make love, to engage in sexual intercourse; a euphemism.
To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. "If you will marry, make your loves to me."
To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. "A game at piquet for love."
Synonyms: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight.





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"Free love" Quotes from Famous Books



... New York, and in 1850 one at Wallingford, Connecticut, all of which have since broken up or been merged in the two communities of Oneida and Wallingford. Their principles are perfectionism, communism and free love. By "perfection" they mean freedom from sin, which they all claim to have, or to seek as practically attainable. They claim, in explaining their sense of this term, that as a man who does not drink is free from intemperance, and one who does not swear is free from profanity, so one who ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118 • Various
... the administration of the second covenant. You read of a preparatory tribunal erected in the word by God the Creator, that is, of the law which condemns us. Now, such is the mercy and grace, and free love of God, that he hath relaxed that sentence as to the persons. He hath not taken that advantage which in justice he had against us, but upon some valuable considerations hath committed to the Son a royal power of prescribing new laws of life and death, ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... down. He tilts irreverently at old god-heads. His principal undertaking, however, is to emancipate woman,—"to deliver Brunnhilda."{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} Siegfried and Brunnhilda, the sacrament of free love, the dawn of the golden age, the twilight of the Gods of old morality—evil is got rid of.{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} For a long while Wagner's ship sailed happily along this course. There can be no doubt that along it Wagner sought his highest goal.—What happened? A misfortune. ...
— The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. • Friedrich Nietzsche.
... aspirations—his passionate belief in friendship, his principle of the equality of women with men, his demand for bloodless revolution, his confidence in eloquence and reason to move nations, his doctrine of free love, his vegetarianism, his hatred of religious intolerance and tyranny—are blent together and concentrated in the glowing cantos of this wonderful romance. The hero, Laon, is himself idealized, the self which he imagined when he undertook his Irish campaign. ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds
... nearly all the things one learns early in life and while one is still simple. Most human beings start with certain facts of psychology to which the rest of life must be somewhat related. For instance, every man falls in love; and no man falls into free love. When he falls into that he calls it lust, and is always ashamed of it even when he boasts of it. That there is some connection between a love and a vow nearly every human being knows before he is eighteen. That there is a solid and instinctive connection between the idea of sexual ecstasy ...
— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton
... Atheism as implying degraded morality and bestial life, and they assailed my conduct not on evidence that it was evil, but on the presumption that an Atheist must be immoral. Thus a Christian opponent at Leicester assailed me as a teacher of free love, fathering on me views which were maintained in a book that I had not read, but which, before I had ever seen the National Reformer, had been reviewed in its columns—as it was reviewed in other London papers—and had been commended for its ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant
... beyond the strength of men, acting as though Thou didst not love them at all—Thou who didst come to give Thy life for them! Instead of taking possession of men's freedom, Thou didst increase it, and burdened the spiritual kingdom of mankind with its sufferings for ever. Thou didst desire man's free love, that he should follow Thee freely, enticed and taken captive by Thee. In place of the rigid ancient law, man must hereafter with free heart decide for himself what is good and what is evil, having only Thy image before him as his guide. But didst Thou not ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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