Saturday, September 15, 2018

Should Webster's definition of Love be removed from the book

 Webster's definition is so vague that I fail to see much of a definition at all.
 If I were to take individuals and ask them, What is your love for your dog, your wife, your career, money, etc. I'm certain I would receive varied degrees of intensity, scope, substance and depth on each specific question.  I dare to say the definition lay in each individual's mind and no, your heart has nothing to do with emotions. (If you believe your heart has emotions, you clicked the wrong blog)



a (1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties 
  • maternal love for a child
 
(2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers 
  • After all these years, they are still very much in love.
 
(3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests 
  • love for his old schoolmates
b : an assurance of affection 
  • give her my love
2: warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion 
  • love of the sea
3a : the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration 
  • baseball was his first love
b (1) : a beloved person : darling often used as a term of endearment 
(2) British used as an informal term of address
4a : unselfish loyal and benevolent (see benevolent 1a) concern for the good of another: such as 
(1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind 
(2) : brotherly concern for others
b : a person's adoration of God
5: a god (such as Cupid or Eros) or personification of love
6: an amorous episode : love affair
7: the sexual embrace : copulation
8: a score of zero (as in tennis)
9capitalized, Christian Science : god
 at love
: holding one's opponent scoreless in tennis
 in love
: inspired by affection

Examples of love in a Sentence

  1. Mr. Brown seems to imply that when he retired he relinquished her love as casually as he dispensed with her secretarial services. —Ken Follett,  New York Times Book Review,  27 Dec. 1987
  2. … Eddie sees Vince's pure love of pool, and after years of thinking of the game as merely a hustle, the older man suddenly falls back in love with the game himself. —Maureen Dowd,  New York Times Magazine,  28 Sept. 1986
  3. Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly, so appealingly, and with such measureless love in her words and her old trembling voice, that he was weltering in tears again, long before she was through. —Mark Twain,  Tom Sawyer,  1876
  4. Allworthy thus answered: " … I have always thought love the only foundation of happiness in a married state, as it can only produce that high and tender friendship which should always be the cement of this union … " —Henry Fielding,  Tom Jones,  1749
  5. Children need unconditional love from their parents.
  6. He was just a lonely man looking for love.
****Opinionated? Not me, hahaha

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