865; regard, dilection†, admiration, fancy.
affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c adj.; heart,
brotherly love; benevolence &c 906; attachment.
yearning, eros, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry†; gallantry,
passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love,
rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.
Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit,
love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love;
courtship &c 902; amourette†; free love.
maternal love, storge [Gr.], parental love; young love, puppy
love.
attractiveness; popularity; favorite &c 899.
lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret†, beau,
sweetheart, inamorato [It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove;
leman†, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso†, cavaliere servente [It],
captive, cicisbeo†; caro sposo [It].
inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel,
goddess, cara sposa [It].
betrothed, affianced, fiancee.
flirt, coquette; amorette†; pair of turtledoves; abode of love,
agapemone†.
V. love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial
to, sympathize with; affection; be in love with &c adj.; have a love &c
n.. for, entertain a love &c n.. for, harbor cherish a love &c n.. for;
regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's
affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize;
hug, cling to, cherish, pet.
burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument [Fr.];
dote on, dote upon; take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored
&c adj.; fall in love with, lose one's heart; desire &c 865.
excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections,
gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the
fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract,
attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor,
enrapture, turn the head.
get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm
oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire
l'aimable [Fr.], set one's cap at, flirt.
Adj. loving &c v.; fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten;
attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed &c v.; in love; love-sick;
over head and ears in love, head over heels in love.
affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous,
amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous,
devoted, motherly.
loved &c v.. beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious,
darling, pet, little; favorite, popular.
congenial; after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy,
after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy,
to one's own heart.
in one's good graces &c (friendly) 888; dear as the apple of one's
eye, nearest to one's heart.
lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning;
charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating,
bewitching; amiable, like an angel.
Phr. amantes amentes [Lat.] [Terence]; credula res amor est [Lat.]
[Ovid]; militat omnis amasius [Lat.] [Ovid]; love conquers all, omnia
vincit amor [Lat.] [Vergil]; si vis amari ama [Seneca]; the sweetest
joy, the wildest woe [Bailey].