What does dove-like mean?
Dove-like means Alternative form of dovelike..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Alternative form of dovelike..
Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss[…].
While he went on, and learnedly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his choſen Text, / I caſt my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the ſounding Board. / That Bird, thought I, was put there as a Sign / What Kind of Spirit guides a good Divine: […]
She had her pets as well as he, and her life and that of her future partner promised to be as dove-like as possible.
[…] and she was so dove-like, so pure, and so gracious, so sweet and bewitching.
As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!
Use dove-like when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dove-like means Alternative form of dovelike..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss[…].
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