Definition of Labour of love

1. Noun. Productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation.

Exact synonyms: Labor Of Love
Generic synonyms: Labor, Project, Task, Undertaking

Definition of Labour of love

1. Noun. (idiomatic British spelling) (alternative spelling of labor of love) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Labour Of Love

laborlore
laborous
labors
labors of love
laborsaving
laborshed
laborsheds
laborsome
labour
labour'd
labour-intensive
labour camp
labour camps
labour complications
labour force
labour of love (current term)
labour onset
labour presentation
labour union
labour unions
labouratory
laboured
laboured respiration
labouredly
labourer
labourers
labourest
laboureth
labouring

Literary usage of Labour of love

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge by Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Edith Coleridge (1873)
"Reserve in Friendship—A Labour of Love—Dedication of the Second Edition of the Biographia Literaria to Mr Wordsworth —" The Silence of Old Age. ..."

2. The Antiquary (1873)
"Nearly nine- ruths of them were the work of monks, who devoted long lours and days to their labour of love for the sen-ice of particular churches. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors by Samuel Redgrave (1878)
"... and was the representative of an old family in that county. He undertook to decorate with his own hand the nave of Ely Cathedral. As a labour of love he ..."

4. The Lauderdale Papers by John Maitland Lauderdale, Osmund Airy (1884)
"... and do hope and pray that God will richly reward all your work and labour of love in behalfe of this Church, now breathing for a comfortable settlement, ..."

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