lack-love

comparative more lack-love · superlative most lack-love

1. Uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.

   And I in exile's lack-love loneliness / Must sigh for joy if yet I may not sing—

   1917, Arthur Shearly Cripps, “The End of the Rains”, in Lake and War, page 17

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   The effects upon the development of personality and behavior of a lack-love infancy appear to have still further repercussions.

   1988, Karl J. Nice, Science and other ways of knowing

plural lack-loves

1. obsoleteA heartless person; someone who is uncaring and indifferent to love.

   Pretty soul! she durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.

   c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, scene 2, lines 76–77