| 单词 | love match |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslove match love match n. a marriage or engagement of which the motive is love, and not worldly advantage or convenience. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > viewed as more or less advantageous > for love love match1656 1656 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Pictures x. 346 A procuring Bawd is to make Love-matches, and contrive Love-meetings. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. viii. 70 This was a Love-Match, as they call it, on both Sides; this is, a Match between two Beggars. View more context for this quotation 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxv. 194 It was little enough she got by marrying him... But it was a love-match. 1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 450/1 The Kāmasūtra permits love matches generally. 1997 C. Shaw Sc. Myths & Customs ix. 211 Folklore invariably presents the marriage of Malcolm and Margaret as a love match. < as lemmas |
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