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true-love|ˈtruːlʌv|
Forms: 1 tréowlufu, 4–5 trulofe, 4–6 trewelove, trewlove, 5 treulofe, trew-luf, -lufe, pl. -luffes, treue loue, 6 tru-, treulove, 6–8 truelove, 6– true love, 7– truelove.
[f. OE. tréowe, true + lufu, love.]
1. Faithful love. Usually as two words (see true a. 1 b), exc. attrib. (see 5).
a800Cynewulf Christ 538 Wæs seo treow lufu, hat æt heortan. 1813Scott Trierm. ii. xvii, To plead their right, and true-love plight.
2. A faithful lover; one whose love is pledged; a sweetheart, beloved.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2542 (Phillis) This is he..That was his trewe loue In thought & dede. c1460Quia amore langueo 17 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 151, I am treulove that fals was neuer, My sistur, mannys soule, I loued hyr thus. a1586Sidney Arcadia Poems (Grosart) II. 128 My true-love hath my heart, and I haue his. 16..Friar of Orders Gray, I pray thee, tell to me If ever at yon holy shrine My true love thou didst see. 17..Song, ‘Wala; wala, up the bank’ (Jam.), I leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree; But first it bow'd, and syne it brak, And sae did my true-love to me. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 73 My one true-love, My only.
†3. An ornament or figure symbolic of true love; a true-love knot. Obs.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 612 Tortors & trulofez entayled so þyk. c1420Anturs of Arth. 354 (Thornton MS.) His mantylle..Trofelyte and trauerste wythe trewloues in trete. 1509Will (MS. Prerog. Crt. Canterb.), Another standing Cupe gilt and enameled wt blew Trulovys in the botom. a1550Image Hypocr. i. 404 in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 419/1 Gay gloves..Wroughte with true loves. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 38 His napkin, edged with a blu lace, & marked with a trulooue, a hart, and A.D. for Damian.
4. A name for the Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia), the whorl of four leaves with the single flower or berry in the midst suggesting the figure of a true-love knot. Also † herb true-love, true-love flower; † true-love grass, four-leaved clover. Also, † the North American genus Trillium (obs.).
13..Test. Christi 126 (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LXXIX. 428 A foure-leued gras..Whon þeose four leues togeder ben set A trewe-loue men clepen hit. c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 3692 Vnder his tonge a trewe loue he beer For ther-by wende he to ben gracious. c1400Emare 125 Portrayed þey wer wyth trewe-loue-flour. 1448Paston Lett. IV. 17 Floweris of sylver on the bukkelis made of iiij. lyke a trewlove. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. v. 10 The seede [of Hound's-tongue] is flat and rough, three or foure together like to a trueloue, or foure leaued grasse. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxv. §6. 329 One Berrie is also called herbe Trueloue, and herbe Paris. a1674? Herrick Fairie Kings Diet 4 The outside of his doublet was Made of the foure-leaued trueloue grass. 1760Lee Introd. Bot. Tab. i, Trillium, Herb Truelove of Canada. 1838M. Howitt Birds & Fl., Summer Woods iv, There grows the four-leaved plant, ‘true love’, In some dusk woodland spot.
5. attrib. (usually in sense 1; in quot. c 1430, in sense 3). See also sense 4, and next.
c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 173 Of trewloue werk wroght ful wele. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. i. 10 And wash him fresh againe with true-loue Teares. 1602― Ham. iv. v. 39 Which bewept to the graue did go, With true-loue showres. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxv, ‘A sincere weel-wisher of mine, sir’... ‘O, I understand,’..—‘a true-love affair’. |