Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A special experience of love; the sum of the incidents having to do with being in love with any person.
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Examples
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When he clicked off his phone the work love-affair girlfriend said, "It's her, isn't it!" and stomped away.
Three Random Absurd Thoughts Kiersten Marek 2012
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He began my love-affair with Fantasy and I try my damndest to read The Hobbit once a year, counting it as my second-favourite novel, behind only ...
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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My love-affair with Egyptology began in the summer of 1998 on an archaeological dig in Israel.
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Her cries and protests would give way to whimperings and wailings, while the men about laughed at the strangeness of the love-affair between her and the Irish terrier.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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In the spirit of The Master, and of a long biographical essay he recently published on Lady Augusta Gregory, Tóibín recreates, in "Silence", the story of her transient, intense, adulterous love-affair with the young poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review Hermione Lee 2010
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I'm thinking about the time I was conducting family therapy at the local children's psychiatric hospital and outside my door the maintenance man was having a show-down with his work love-affair girlfriend who was confronting him.
Three Random Absurd Thoughts Kiersten Marek 2012
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The story deals with failed romance and the self-deceptions by which pain is held at bay, as the lodger Mrs. Nome recasts the wretched tale of her daughter's betrayal and abortion as "The Most Beautiful love-affair the passions of our world have ever brought about."
The First Lady Of Futurism Helen Carr 2011
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I loved ancient church so much that I'm making a movie and writing a book about them, coming early next year (Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer is a not-for-profit feature film, the result of my studies and renewed love-affair with Jesus Christ and church).
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Why It's Cool to Go to Church Again 2010
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I loved ancient church so much that I'm making a movie and writing a book about them, coming early next year (Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer is a not-for-profit feature film, the result of my studies and renewed love-affair with Jesus Christ and church).
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Why It's Cool to Go to Church Again 2010
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People take to the streets and that hasn't been happening in this country, in part because in part because I think there's such been this sort of love-affair with Obama.
David Goodfriend: Naomi Klein on "Left Jab" Lands a Punch! David Goodfriend 2010
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