The story
- Middle English · inherited fromlufeless“loveless”
- English todayLovelace
From Middle English lufeless (“loveless”), possibly a nickname for a philanderer. In the libertine sense, refers to Robert Lovelace, a character in Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.