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▪ I. lover1|ˈlʌvə(r)|
Forms: α. 3, 5 luffer(e, 4–6 lufer, 4 lufere, lovere, luver, 5 loufer, lovare; Sc. 4–5 lufare, 4–6 luffar, 4 lyffar, 5 lufar, 6, 8 luver, 6 luvar, luvear, luwair, luif(f)ar, 7 luiver. β. 4 (8, 9 dial.) lovier, 4 loviere, lovyere, 4, 5, 8 lovyer, 8 loveyer, 4– lover.
[f. love v.1 + -er1.]
One who loves.
1. a. One who is possessed by sentiments of affection or regard towards another; a friend or well-wisher. Now rare.
a1340Hampole Psalter i. 1 His verray lufers folous him fleand honur. c1400Destr. Troy 5277 He was a frynde to my fader, & a fyn louer. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 231 The luffers of seynte Edmund were displeasede with hym gretely þerfore. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 800 He ys þi lover, lord, suerly. 1524Sir R. Sutton's Will in Churton Life App. 543 Make a new feoffment to ten persones of my lovers and frends. 1535Coverdale 1 Sam. Contents xviii, Ionathas and Dauid are sworne louers. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. Ded., To.. Mr. Cambden..your true lover, Ben. Jonson. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iii. ii. 49, I slewe my best Louer for the good of Rome. 1625Bacon Ess., Friendship (Arb.) 171 Men so Wise,..and so Extreme Louers of Themselues, as all these were. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iv. iii. 44 The loving Company of the order of the garter hath received you their Brother Lover and fellow. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 15 A stranger, but a very warm lover of yours. 1796W. Tone Autobiog. (1828) 147, I made my bow, and followed my new lover to his hotel. 1898W. K. Johnson Terra Tenebr. 34 The earth was foe to him, Let the sea be lover.
b. In the spiritual sense.
c1300Cursor M. 20870 Petre was..luuer o lauerd, alsua niter. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Egipciane) 1085 God..þat gyfis mare to his luferis þan þai cane ask. 1577St. Aug. Manual (Longman) 108 God their lover will not take it [love] away from his lovers against their wils. 1740C. Wesley Hymn, Jesu, Lover of my Soul. 1748G. White Serm. (MS.), Every true Lover of God. 1866J. H. Newman Gerontius §1 Lover of souls! great God! I look to Thee.
2. a. One who is in love with, or who is enamoured of a person of the opposite sex.
a1225Ancr. R. 256 Leouere me beoð hire wunden þen uikiinde [MS. C. lufferes] cosses. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 295 (323) O ye loueres þat heyhe vpon the whiel Ben set of Fortune. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxi. (Clement) 455 And hyre enbrasit with al his macht, as lyffaris þat had bene intwyne. c1386Chaucer Prol. 80 A louyere, and a lusty Bacheler. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. clxxix, Awak! awake! I bring, lufar, I bring The newis glad. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlviii. 60 The birdis did with oppin vocis cry, O, luvaris fo, away thow dully nycht. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxx. 85 Loyes Rambalte had at Bride a fayre woman to his louer, whome he loued parfitely. 1557North Gueuara's Diall Pr. Gen. Prol. ⁋7/1 He [Nero] counted seuerally al the haires that his louer Pompeia had on her head. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i, If I freely may discouer, What woulde please mee in my Louer: I woulde haue her faire, and wittie [etc.]. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 298 The stroke of death is as a Louers pinch, Which hurts, and is desir'd. 1768Woman of Honor III. 52 You will find few,..such desperately true lovyers. 1821Byron Juan iii. iii, In her first passion, woman loves her lover. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Lovier, a lover. A vulgarism, but no corruption. Not peculiar to us. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Plato Wks. (Bohn) I. 290 If he had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them. 1885Burton Arab. Nts. (1887) III. 101 She..said..‘I am a lover separated from her beloved’.
b. One who loves illicitly; a gallant, paramour.
1611Bible Jer. iii. 1 Thou hast played the harlot with many louers. 1716Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Lady Rich 20 Sept., A woman looks not for a lover as soon as she is married. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 89 She answered, Thy wife has a lover.
c. A pimp. U.S. slang.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 250/1 Lover, a man who receives support from a prostitute. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 727 A pimp is a..McGimp, fish and shrimp, lover, Latin lover and many others.
d. As a form of address (to a lover, or casually). colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1911G. S. Porter Harvester x. 194 ‘Hello, lover!’ cried Doctor Carey...‘Are you married yet?’ 1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise ii. i. 209 Rosalind: Lover! Lover! I can't do with you, and I can't imagine life without you. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 389 Maybe I wouldn't hear all the jazz you hear, lover, but I could develop her talent. 1963D. Heyes 12th of Never (1964) v. 31 ‘You got it, lover,’ the waitress said. 1966L. Deighton Billion-Dollar Brain iv. 41 It's nothing like that, lover. I'm not going to get myself hurt. 1972J. Burmeister Running Scared iv. 72 She swung her legs off the bed. ‘How about some coffee, lover?’
3. One who has an affection, predilection, fancy, or liking for (a thing, action or idea).
1340Ayenb. 270 O men ne byeþ naȝt..louieres of þe wordle. Ibid., Yet eft þe wordle þyestre, uor þe louyeres of þe wordle byeþ þyestre. 1388Wyclif 1 Pet. iii. 13 And who is it that schal anoye ȝou if, ȝe ben sueris and louyeris of goodnesse. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 902 Fysshers of sowles, and lovers of clennes. 1568Grafton Chron. I. 8 Tuball..was a great lover of Musick. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §122 He was a great lover of his country. 1655Walton Angler xxi. (1661) 255 Pisc. And upon all that are lovers of Vertue, and all that love to be quiet and go a fishing. 1748Hume Ess., Parties Gt. Brit. 97 Lovers of Liberty, but greater Lovers of Monarchy. 1828Scott F.M. Perth Introd., Freed from the odious presence of this lover of cleanliness. 1901Longm. Mag. Oct. 543 The book will be eagerly read by all lovers of Selborne.
4. Comb., as lover-loving adj. Also lover boy, man slang (orig. U.S.), a lover, an attractive man, a woman-chaser; also used as a form of address; † lovers' lair Sc., the bed of love; lover's knot = love-knot; lovers' lane, a road or any other secluded place to which lovers resort; lover's leap (see leap n.1 2); often applied to a precipice in connexion with some legend about the suicide of a lover by leaping down; also (allusive nonce-use), a matrimonial venture; lover's (lovers') quarrel, a dispute between lovers; also transf.
15..Littill Interlud 76 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 316 Lassis..Wald ga to luvaris lair. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) vi. 25 So luvaris lair no leid suld lak. 1592Lyly Gallathea iv. ii. 22 (Bond) First you must vndoe all these Louers knots, because you tyed them. 1677(title) The lovers quarrel: or, Cupids triumph. 1809Malkin Gil Blas x. xii. (1866) 383, I answered by expressing my surprise at her honouring me with the offer of her hand... To this she replied, that having a considerable fortune, it would give her pleasure to share it in her life-time with a man of honour..then, rejoined I, you have made up your mind to take a lover's leap. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxxi, While on the gay dance shone Night's lover-loving Queen. 1823C. Lamb Let. 9 Jan. (1935) II. 364 Henceforth I retract all my fond complaints of mercantile employment; look upon them as lovers' quarrels. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. vi, The river of his History..here dashes itself over that terrific Lover's Leap; and, as a mad-foaming cataract, flies wholly into tumultuous clouds of spray! 1842Lytton Zanoni I. ii. ii. 137 The mysterious warning of Zanoni then suddenly occurred to him; he had forgotten it in the interest of his lover's quarrel with Viola. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. viii. 98 Tying the shafts together in their centre, in a lover's knot. 1881Golden Gate Gaz. (San Francisco) 26 Oct. 2/2 Sunday afternoon as a young lady and gentleman were promenading through ‘Lovers' Lane’ they were attacked by a ferocious dog. 1918Barrie What Every Woman Knows iv. 134 There is a romantically damp little arbour at the end of what the villagers call the Lovers' Lane. 1941Time 25 Aug. 41/1 In England, a young pair who had had a lovers' quarrel took 50 years to cool off, finally got the knot tied. 1942R. Frost Witness Tree 52, I had a lover's quarrel with the world. 1947News of World 26 Jan. 3/6 Her..body..was found in a ‘lovers' lane’ on an empty building site. 1952S. Ellin Key to Nicholas Street i. i. 14 Here was lover boy walking around with milady's key. 1958M. Procter Man in Ambush xvi. 196 Lover boy's been talking to you. Take no notice. 1959C. Williams Man in Motion iii. 26 He's a Lover Boy, one of those big, flashy, conceited types that has to..give all the girls a break. 1961H. S. Turner Something Extraordinary ii. 28 Clive..has never been able to stop her calling him ‘loverboy’ in tones of scorn. 1966J. Pearl Crucifixion P. McCabe (1967) ix. 136 How would I know that I'd find Donna Lord parked in a lovers' lane at Briarwood Lake? 1968L. Deighton Only when I Larf xvii. 226 ‘There's no hurry, loverman,’ she said. 1972F. Warner Lying Figures ii. 9 Out on the prowl tonight, lover-boy? 1972J. Brown Chancer xv. 208 Our arty friend, lover man, he was running a photography business. 1974Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 18 Jan. 34/4 Elisabeth Foster's body was found on January 3, 1972, under a hedge by a ‘lovers' lane’ near the picturesque village of Wrea Green.
▪ II. † lover2 Obs.
[f. love v.2 + -er1.]
One who praises, an eulogist.
a1340Hampole Psalter ix. 24 Þat thynge has man delite to doe in þe whilk þai hafe sum louere & nan with takere. Ibid. xxi. 33 To be his lufere and louere.
▪ III. lover, loverd(e
obs. ff. louver, lord. |