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Definition of Free love
1. Noun. Sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another.
Generic synonyms: Criminal Congress, Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Specialized synonyms: Adultery, Criminal Conversation, Fornication, Fornication
Definition of Free love
1. Noun. the practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Love
Literary usage of Free love
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"Her Union with Godwin in free love—Their subsequent Marriage — Their Squabbles
and Differences—Their Daughter's Birth — Mary ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"phase of immoral doctrine called free love, we distinctly disavow the holding of any
... of free love, and utterly repudiate any sympathy ..."
3. Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments by William Batchelder Greene (1875)
"The ideal of free love, ^sI understand you to explain it, is embodied in the
marriage-relation of the canine race, where every gentleman dog is the ..."
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