loverless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English lover Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English loverless From lover + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a lover.
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.
1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:1902-1905, Bliss Carman, The Pipes of Pan Forlorn and loverless as the wild sea, / Long have I lain alone, longing for thee […]