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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lovemaking
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And did he really believe she could forget their lovemaking?
▪ Her arm was aching from his weight, and her body was sore from his eager lovemaking.
▪ Imagination runs riot, memories of one's own lovemaking being replayed with another man playing your part.
▪ Much of what he had written about lovemaking was beautiful.
▪ They were both totally naked and exuberant in their lovemaking.
▪ Think about it, Leo had instructed her when she'd asked about the lovemaking.
▪ Your virile, lustful lovemaking certainly surprises a partner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lovemaking

"courtship," mid-15c., from love (n.) + make. Phrase make love is attested from 1570s in the sense "pay amorous attention to;" as a euphemism for "have sex," it is attested from c.1950.

Wiktionary
lovemaking

n. 1 sexual intercourse 2 (context dated English) courtship; amorous advances

WordNet
lovemaking

n. sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life" [syn: sexual love, making love, love, love life]

Usage examples of "lovemaking".

Even today, through all his dreams, there cavorted huge-breasted, olive-skinned, Ashkenazic, perpetual-motion, earth-mother, Sabra lovemaking machines.

Drenched in the scent of their lovemaking, she breathed it in, the musky odor headier than the most expensive Parisian perfume.

Cardplaying, lovemaking, and practical jokes were the order of the day.

Despite knowing their lovemaking was nothing more than lust that she had initiated, Kerrie was hurt.

Regretfully Suzanne decided that there was no time for lovemaking, Five minutes later she revised her overhasty judgment.

Claudia battened down her instinctive sense of outrage and revulsion, her anger at the way the girl was unwittingly intruding on the privacy of her lovemaking with Garth, defiling it almost, her training coming to the fore as she calmly ignored what the girl was saying.

Fits of weeping and malaise alternating with furious bouts of lovemaking were her idea of romantic counterpoint.

She was a woman who liked the niceties of lovemaking, she did not fantasise about sex in dark alleyways or forbidden places where lovers might be discovered in embarrassingly compromising situations.

Drake had seen the scene often enough without wanting to play a part in it: dusky coconut culture serves as exotic backdrop for Anglo fantasies of global gaming and sexual derring-do under the rule that out in the non-Christian hinterlands there are no rules, no one is what he seems, and the congenial Welsh twosome you meet over rijsttafel in a restaurant whose wall murals depict a subtle range of lovemaking are, in actuality, ruthless agents of a foreign power who have selected you and your beautiful wife to play unwilling but critical roles in their horrid terrorist scheme.

Back home, there followed a detailed bout of valedictory lovemaking, with Selina game and longsuffering, and me as effusively carnal as ever.

Like marine creatures on many worlds, the borks were supersensitive to ultra-high-frequency sounds and apparently used them for territorial claims, fights, lovemaking (hard to imagine with something like that, but, then again, there were a lot of borks), and such.

Besides, I wanted to be able to weigh clearheadedly the predictions and warnings for Rime Isle I hoped to get from him—not with a mind dreamy with lovemaking and swayed by all the little fancies and fears that come with full infatuation.

Besides, I wanted to be able to weigh clearheadedly the predictions and warnings for Rime Isle I hoped to get from him -- not with a mind dreamy with lovemaking and swayed by all the little fancies and fears that come with full infatuation.

Neither ever knew whether or not he would be capable of the act, but this uncertainty, instead of demoralizing him, added piquancy to the lovemaking.

Our brainless lovemaking anticipated Abstract Expressionism in a way, since it was about absolutely nothing but itself.