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loveday en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlʌvdeɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English loveday; equivalent to love + day.

Meanings

1. (historical) A day appointed for a meeting intended to amicably resolve a dispute; also the meeting held on such a day.
   • In our period, all the people of England made lovedays, from the richest to the poorest. 1994, John Clarence Bedell, Dispute Settlement and the Control of Violence in England, 1272-1330:
   • legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference[…]. 1983, John Bossy, Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, page 60:
2. (poetic) A day devoted to love.

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