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Definition of Love-in-idleness

1. Noun. A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Love-in-idleness

lovable lovableness lovablenesses lovably lovage lovage lovages lovastatin lovastatin lovastatins

lovat lovats love love love-in-a-mist love-in-idleness (current term) love-in-winter love-lies-bleeding love-philter love-philtre

love-potion love-song love-token loveable loveably lovebird lovebirds lovebite lovebites lovebug

Literary usage of Love-in-idleness

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1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1876)
"LOVE IN IDLENESS. BY JUSTIN MCCARTHY, AUTHOR OF "DEAR LADY DISDAIN," &c. NE day Mr. Stephen Acton, a literary man and a bachelor, living in lodgings in the ..."

2. Poems by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1890)
"LOVE IN IDLENESS. I What should I do ? In such a wife Fortune had lavish'd all her store, And nothing now seem'd left for life But to deserve her more and ..."

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