loverlike
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]loverlike (comparative more loverlike, superlative most loverlike)
- Befitting or characteristic of a lover. [from 16th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 148:
- I am very uneaſy to think how I have been drawn on one hand, and driven on the other, into a clandeſtine, in ſhort, into a mere Lover-like correſpondence, which my heart condemns.
- [c. 1792], [Jane Austen], “The Three Sisters: a novel”, in Volume the First, page 171:
- “So, Miſs Stanhope (said he) you see I am come a courting in a true Lover like Manner.”