unlove

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English

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Etymology 1

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From un- (not; lack of) +‎ love (noun).

Noun

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unlove (uncountable)

  1. The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.
    • 2005, David Deida, Blue Truth:
      Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses. But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does. Separation is the act of unlove.
    • 2007, John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships:
      How do you experience this sense of unlove in your body? Notice the specific quality of the bodily [] Then see if you can let the feeling of unlove be there just as it is, without trying to fix it, change it, or judge it.
    • 2011, Christopher Uhl, Teaching as if Life Matters:
      All the most intractable problems in human relationships can be traced back to “the mood of unlove,” a deep-seated suspicion most of us harbor [] The mood of unlove that Wellwood describes is pervasive in our culture.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English unloven, equivalent to un- (reversal prefix) +‎ love (verb).

Verb

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unlove (third-person singular simple present unloves, present participle unloving, simple past and past participle unloved)

  1. (transitive) To lose one's love (for someone or something).
    • 1847, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre[1]:
      I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me--because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction--because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.
    • 1874, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy[2]:
      And now, having once loved, she will be slow to unlove again.
    • 1891 [1711], Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.[3]:
      They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him.
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