Lovelore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lovelore is a noun meaning The knowledge, science, study, or history of love.
Meaning
The knowledge, science, study, or history of love.
More Meanings
- A romantic tale; a romance.
Example Sentences
She has her own beauty and majesticity as she weaves and meanders away amidst high mountains and ravines— carrying with her the lovelores and legends of her sons since time immemorial.
Not in yours either,' he had said. 'Try the moon, in that case,' his friends told him helpfully, taking their cue from old romantic songs that featured the moon when it was still a part of lovelore.
It is not, in the common and cheap misuse of the term, the most "romantic" arrangement, but some not imperfect in lovelore have held that a woman's love is never so strong as when she is past girlhood and well approaching age, and that a man's is never stronger than when he is just not a boy.
Word Forms
- lovelores
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include philology, sexlore, philomathy, ocean-lore, epistemophilia, starlore.
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