Love in the Dictionary

C. Dougherty

Love: A strong, complex emotion or feeling of personal attachment,

causing one to appreciate, delight in, or crave the presence

or possession of the object, and to please and promote the welfare

of that object;

devoted affection or attachment;

specifically, the feeling between husband and wife;

brother and sister;

or lover and sweetheart;

One who is beloved;

a sweetheart;

animal passion;

the personification of the love-passion;

Cupid;

in some games, as tennis, nothing.