Meaning of true love | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Faithful love.
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2. Feelings of love that are adhered to faithfully, or the faithful manifestation of such feelings.
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3. A lover who is faithful to the object of his or her affection or faithfully loved themselves.
   countable
4. Love that is in some sense purer or more unique than ordinary love.
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5. The form of romantic affection that is considered pure and wholly positive, not just based on feelings of lust and sex.
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6. The unique individual for whom one feels such affection.
   countable
7. The situation in which a couple is perfectly compatible and there is no better relationship, as set by a greater force such as God or fate.
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8. A thing for which a person feels an intense love.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“I shall be forsworn, which is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And how can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love, […]”

“When all’s done, what hast thou won Of the only sweet that’s under the sun? Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh Of true love’s least, least ecstasy?”

“For both Thomas and Chrétien true love is identified with the ability to be true to one’s commitment, and Fenice is justifiably confident of her ability to be constant.”

“I leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree; But first it bow’d, and fyne it brak, Sae my true love did lightly me.”

“The first day of Christmas My true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree.”

“Some believe that true love doesn’t exist.”

“And as all true love is reciprocal, so also is true love lasting and indestructible; or, to “speak as a man,” even because it is the very inmost life of humanity, it is, therefore, true unto death.”

“The leader of the world's 1 billion Catholics has tried to answer the age-old question of philosophers, playwrights and poets — the meaning of love — and concluded that erotic desire without self-sacrifice and spiritual devotion cannot be true love.”

“He was my one true love.”

“Yellow is the colour of my true love’s hair In the morning when we rise.”

“Cinematography is my only true love.”

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