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- noun Plural form of
love-child .
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Examples
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"God, kids sure are wild in the United States," she told me she remembered thinking, not understanding how different these hippies were from the American love-children she had read about back in Munich and hoped to hook up with when she came to our shores.
John Waters: Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 1 of 5 2009
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But nobody ever tells the hapless buyers that their universe might be one where they are fighting over custody of their love-children with a pretty close copy of Britney Spears 2007 from Earth Prime.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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And How many love-children does Coach K enjoy anyway?
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But then look at what Rousseau did with his love-children; perhaps a bit of history would have taught us some humility.
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Because of that the child was consigned to the school for forbidden love-children, which meant that she would be fated for the life of a free woman and become the property of such men as had the price to pay.
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There are many love-children born on the Royal Level and they suffer only a failure of inheritance of wealth from the father.
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There were many of them about, and the love-children were to keep an open door and a sharp look-out, and offer the welcome entertainment.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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She was one of those children I am accustomed to call "love-children," because they are so much brighter, healthier, larger and more loving than others.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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But it became possible to live when I had learnt all I had not learnt in shaping words, in defending Synge against his enemies, and knew that rich energies, fine, turbulent or gracious thoughts, whether in life or letters, are but love-children.
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In countries where marriages are habitually arranged by the parents with reference to rank or money alone, in defiance of love, the only "love-children" are necessarily illegitimate.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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