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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Love in the Dictionary
 (Sung text for setting by C. Dougherty)
 Matches base text
Language: English 
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.

Composition:

    Set to music by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), "Love in the Dictionary"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from Funk and Wagnall's Students' Standard Dictionary

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-12-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 73

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