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Unlove

Unlove \Un*love"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + love.] To cease to love; to hate. [Obs.]

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unlove

Etymology 1 n. The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate. Etymology 2

vb. (context transitive English) to lose one's love (for someone or something)

Usage examples of "unlove".

Nothing in her father's dour unlove or Rev Thatcher's weakness or Master Eremis' desire had prepared her for the way Geraden unknotted his throat and swallowed his distress and gave her a smile like a gift.

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.

I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady -- because I read daily in her a proud security in his intentions respecting her -- because I witnessed hourly in him a style of courtship which, if careless and choosing rather to be sought than to seek, was yet, in its very carelessness, captivating, and in its very pride, irresistible.

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.

I could not unlove him because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady—because I read daily in her a proud security in his intentions respecting her—because I witnessed hourly in him a style of courtship which, if careless, and choosing rather to be sought than to seek, was yet, in its very carelessness, captivating, and in its very pride, irresistible.