lack-love

English

Etymology

lack +‎ love

Adjective

lack-love (comparative more lack-love, superlative most lack-love)

Uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.
- 1917, Cripps, Arthur Shearly, “The End of the Rains”, in Lake and War‎, page 17:
  And I in exile's lack-love loneliness / Must sigh for joy if yet I may not sing—
- 1988, Nice, Karl J., Science and other ways of knowing:
  The effects upon the development of personality and behavior of a lack-love infancy appear to have still further repercussions.

Noun

lack-love (plural lack-loves)

(obsolete) A heartless person; someone who is uncaring and indifferent to love.
- c. 1595–1596, Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, scene 2, lines 76–77:
  Pretty soul! she durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.

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