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Definition of Fall in love
1. Verb. Begin to experience feelings of love towards. "Sam and Sue fall in love"; "She fell in love with her former student"
Definition of Fall in love
1. Verb. (intransitive of a person animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love directed at another person or a thing. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive reciprocal) To come to have feelings of love towards each other. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive of a person inanimate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall In Love
Literary usage of Fall in love
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Perhaps with some grey head this may prevail With Christ to fall in love, and
sin bewail. Tell them also how Master Fearing went On pilgrimage, ..."
2. Ethics and Natural Law: A Reconstructive Review of Moral Philosophy Applied by George Lansing Raymond (1920)
"... and Anticipated in Education—Courtship, Friendship, and Love— The Qualities
Attracting those who Fall in Love—Risks Attending Merely Bodily or Merely ..."
3. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"Te "fall in love !" what an unhappy catastrophe ! ... She does not suffer a man
to fall in love, or to wade in, but she catches the admirer by the hand, ..."