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lovedom en · NOUN

Etymology

From love + -dom; compare kingdom, Christendom.

Meanings

  1. (nonce-word, rare, uncountable) The condition or realm of love.
    • In her forties, energetic and painstaking, she has found that the triangle situation is by far lovedom’s gravest problem. In-law trouble comes next. 1941, Coronet, volume 10, page 131:
    • It's not the dark–blanked windows across the street at night that on beach Time Shares within our lovedom, blend so right. It's seeing you. Here again. Along venues of simple elegance. 2010, Rorry Nighttrain East, Time Share, in the book In the Gliding Sudden: A Book of Poetry & Prose, page 13
    • Naturally — and without, as it seems to me, very much self-sacrifice — he chooses release from lovedom. 1884, in Progress, volumes 3-4 (George William Foote), page 270