loverless

loverless

English

Etymology

    From lover + -less.

    Adjective

    loverless (not comparable)

    1. Without a lover.
      • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
        Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse.
      • 1902-1905, Bliss Carman, The Pipes of Pan
        Forlorn and loverless as the wild sea, / Long have I lain alone, longing for thee []

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