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▪ I. unˈlove, n.
[un-1 12.]
Absence of love.
1611Florio, Disamore, the contrary of loue, vnloue, hate. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 541 He now forbids every sort of unlove. 1865― Truth Eng. Ch. 58 Souls purified..from passion..and all unlove. Ibid. 65.
▪ II. unˈlove, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To cease to love (a person, etc.).
Sometimes possibly ‘not to love’: see un-1 14.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1698, I ne kan..withinne myn herte fynde To vnlouen yow. 1575Peterson tr. Della Casa's Galateo 8 Ynough to cause men,..if they did loue vs, to vnloue vs againe. 1640Fuller Joseph's Coat 122 How then shall I unlove the world, which hath been my bosome Darling so long? 1712Steele Spect. No. 310 ⁋1 They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xviii, I have told you..that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now. 1855Browning In a Balcony 582 Remember, I..Would..Do all but just unlove him.
absol.1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer ii. (1577) H iv, More apt to brawling and chyding,..that love and vnlove al at a time. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 10 If we returne not to our former state of freedome, and unlove againe. 1859Mrs. Stowe Minister's Wooing xxv, We never know how we love till we try to unlove. 1881E. J. Worboise Sissie xv, I am sure one cannot unlove, just because one's esteem is lessened! |