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lack-love en · ADJ

Etymology

From lack + love.

Meanings

1. Uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.
   • And I in exile's lack-love loneliness / Must sigh for joy if yet I may not sing— 1917, Arthur Shearly Cripps, “The End of the Rains”, in Lake and War, page 17:
   • The effects upon the development of personality and behavior of a lack-love infancy appear to have still further repercussions. 1988, Karl J. Nice, Science and other ways of knowing:

Forms

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most lack-love	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more lack-love	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

lack-love en · NOUN

Etymology

From lack + love.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A heartless person; someone who is uncaring and indifferent to love.
   • Pretty soul! she durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, scene 2, lines 76–77:

Forms

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lack-loves	Number=Plur		lexicographic