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loverlike

adj

Etymology

From lover + -like.

  1. inherited from lovere
  2. suffixed as loverlike — “lover + like”

Definitions

  1. Befitting or characteristic of a lover.

    • I am very uneaſy to think how I have been drawn on one hand, and driven on the other, into a clandeſtine, in ſhort, into a mere Lover-like correſpondence, which my heart condemns.
    • “So, Miſs Stanhope (said he) you see I am come a courting in a true Lover like Manner.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA