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Synonyms for loved

Grammar : Adj
Spell : luhvd
Phonetic Transcription : lÊŒvd

Définition of loved

Origin :
  • Old English lufu "love, affection, friendliness," from Proto-Germanic *lubo (cf. Old High German liubi "joy," German Liebe "love;" Old Norse, Old Frisian, Dutch lof; German Lob "praise;" Old Saxon liof, Old Frisian liaf, Dutch lief, Old High German liob, German lieb, Gothic liufs "dear, beloved").
  • The Germanic words are from PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (cf. Latin lubet, later libet "pleases;" Sanskrit lubhyati "desires;" Old Church Slavonic l'ubu "dear, beloved;" Lithuanian liaupse "song of praise").
  • "Even now," she thought, "almost no one remembers Esteban and Pepita but myself. Camilla alone remembers her Uncle Pio and her son; this woman, her mother. But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." [Thornton Wilder, "Bridge of San Luis Rey," 1927]
  • Meaning "a beloved person" is from early 13c. The sense "no score" (in tennis, etc.) is 1742, from the notion of "playing for love," i.e. "for nothing" (1670s). Phrase for love or money "for anything" is attested from 1580s. Love seat is from 1904. Love-letter is attested from mid-13c.; love-song from early 14c. To fall in love is attested from early 15c. To be in love with (someone) is from c.1500. To make love is from 1570s in the sense "pay amorous attention to;" as a euphemism for "have sex," it is attested from c.1950. Love life "one's collective amorous activities" is from 1919, originally a term in psychological jargon. Love affair is from 1590s. The phrase no love lost (between two people) is ambiguous and was used 17c. in reference to two who love each other well (c.1640) as well as two who have no love for each other (1620s).
  • adj desired
Example sentences :
  • But, notwithstanding this, she was a good mother, and Robert loved her.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • When I was twenty I could have loved him devotedly, I believe.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • To be with those she loved best, and to be driving over the beautiful earth!
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • But that Hope loved him ardently there was no doubt, however it might be explained.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • You may think that your sage counsels restrained her, but they did not; it was that she loved some one else.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • I wish he were here now, even he,—any one who loved me truly, and whom I could love only a little.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • But better than his own immortal soul, he loved and doated upon gold!
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Never, never, wringing her hands, should she meet with a mistress she loved so well.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • From those who loved the people and, of course, despised the laws?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • If I loved you before--don't you think I love you now a million times more?
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

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