(n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
(n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
(n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
(n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
(n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.
(n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.
(n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
(n.) A thin silk stuff.
(n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
(n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.
(n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
(n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
(n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
(v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
(5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
(10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
(11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
(12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
(16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
(17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
(18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.
Nihilism
Definition:
(n.) Nothingness; nihility.
(n.) The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.
(n.) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Quod Nihil Scitur" (That's that nothing we know) is a philosophical open, "adogmatic" and liberal form of scepticism.
(2) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
(3) Therefore the structure of a prenatal diagnostics centre must to a great extent observe the "Nihil nocere".
(4) Low CMAPs should not lead to therapeutic nihilism, because it may simply be caused by demyelination without exonal degeneration in CIDP.
(5) Farewell bleak nihilism; the cold assurances that all is meaningless.
(6) It's hard to see why any party around the world would emulate such nihilism."
(7) Therapeutic nihilism or deliberate acceptance of pseudoarthrotic healing, therefore, cannot be justified in treatment of avulsion fractures of the epicondylus medialis humeri.
(8) Though it may be true that, in the absence of a dependable cause, there is no single cure for inflammatory diseases of the locomotor system, nevertheless there is no reason for therapeutic nihilism.
(9) The psychiatric profession's therapeutic nihilism toward the elderly may reflect unresolved countertransference issues that result in a form of prejudice called "ageism."
(10) On the other hand therapeutic nihilism cannot be recommended.
(11) Even more disturbing, perhaps, is the threat of moral nihilism.
(12) There has been a sense of anomie in the CBC’s broadcasts during these playoffs, and on Wednesday it seemed to have finally morphed into full-blown nihilism.
(13) The overriding principle in surgery should always be "nihil nocere".
(14) Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.
(15) But while the scars of apartheid unquestionably run deep, other voices warn against nihilism.
(16) Anorectal surgery in HIV+ patients historically has been viewed with a great deal of nihilism.
(17) If the political mainstream parties cannot devise a viable response, and quickly, then Britain – like Italy – could find itself overshadowed by the nihilism of an insurgent anti-politics party.
(18) I don’t agree with someone like Russell Brand who advocates not voting – it’s pure nihilism, it’s not going to do any good.
(19) At the same time, the presence of a very low CD4 count alone should not be considered a reason for therapeutic nihilism.
(20) In his essay, however, he began with a confession of his complete ignorance as to the mechanism of secretion: 'Multa in physiologicis obscura sunt, obscurius hac ipsa functione nihil'.