lovedom

lovedom

English

Etymology

love +‎ -dom; compare kingdom, Christendom

Noun

lovedom (uncountable)

1. (rare, nonce word) The condition or realm of love.
   • 1884, in Progress, volumes 3-4 (George William Foote), page 270:

     Naturally — and without, as it seems to me, very much self-sacrifice — he chooses release from lovedom.

   • 1941, in Coronet, volume 10, page 131:

     In her forties, energetic and painstaking, she has found that the triangle situation is by far lovedom’s gravest problem. In-law trouble comes next.

   • 2010, Rorry Nighttrain East, Time Share, in the book In the Gliding Sudden: A Book of Poetry & Prose, page 13:

     It's not the dark–blanked windows

     across the street at night

     that on beach Time Shares

     within our lovedom,

     blend so right.

     It's seeing you. Here again. Along

     venues of simple elegance.