by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Love in the Dictionary
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.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from Funk and Wagnall's Students' Standard Dictionary [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), "Love in the Dictionary" [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-12-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 73