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lovesmith en · NOUN

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• /ˈlʌv.smɪθ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From love + smith.

Meanings

1. One who nurtures and spreads love.
   • Was not Christ a kind of a spiritual lovesmith; and was it not His mission and His mission still, to weld these lovely links together in order to create a true brotherhood of men on earth? 1907 October, “Thoughts of the Month”, in The Cambrian, volume 27, number 8:
   • Lovesmith divine, may your fiery love purify my life with your compassion as I set out this day. 2007, Tess Ward, The Celtic Wheel of the Year: Old Celtic and Christian Prayers:
   • We are here to become lovesmiths: to master the art of loving and to live love into existence every single day. 2016, Laura Berman, Quantum Love:
2. An accomplished lover.
   • […] of the lovesmiths of Ngai . 1998, James Kinyanjui Ngubiah, The Love Birds, page 7:
   • Actually, however, the play upon the opening title is not completed until the film's final shot, when the hero, spurned by the girl, allows the police to yank him into jail. It is a sardonic reversal. Locks laugh at lovesmiths, after all. 2010, Gabriella Oldham, Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter, page 206:
   • The play deals with an affaire du coeur of the famous lovesmith, Casanova who "had 300 sweethearts, and everyone of them a beauty" —so this episode must be accepted merely as a torrid interlude. 1923, The Haberdasher, volume 78, page 77:

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