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Definition of Lovelessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lovelessness
Literary usage of Lovelessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt by Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Francis Hueffer (1889)
"But this lovelessness also I explain to myself as an error, an error which must
... The state of lovelessness is the state of suffering for the human race ..."
2. Mind (1902)
"Cruelty, the outcome of lovelessness and hate, ... by wild animals are reactions
of human hate—rebounding like a boomerang on the lovelessness of man. ..."
3. The Life of Christ by William James Dawson (1901)
"There is an atoning power in love which covers many faults, but the worst of all
faults is lovelessness. Lovelessness is the ruin of the world. ..."
4. The Fundamental Truths of the Christian Religion: Sixteen Lectures Delivered by Reinhold Seeberg (1908)
"Or without a figure : why unbelief and lovelessness here flame up into the fire
of vice, and there glimmer and smoulder as stifled flames, we do not know, ..."
5. Sermons Preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel by Frederick Denison Maurice (1892)
"He did tell them this ; he did set this peril before them : for he spoke of
Salvation. He reminded them that this indifference, lovelessness, ..."
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