lovelight

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noun

A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.

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Meanings

nounlovelight (countable and uncountable, plural lovelights)

plural lovelights

  1. countableuncountableA fond expression of love in a person's eyes.

    Her face was suffused with the glory of love's transfiguration: the red light of the sunset had not been more obvious in her eyes than was now the lovelight that replaced it.

    1909?, Ambrose Bierce, In the Midst of Life (page 89)
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    Her hands folded tightly together across her brow, she looked the very embodiment of reverent expectation, and the blushing roses on her cheeks, the lovelight in her eyes seemed to deepen for an instant, and then pale slightly[…]

    1903, L. P. Gratacap, The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars, page 85

Origin

From love + light.

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APA

lovelight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lovelight

MLA

“lovelight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lovelight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lovelight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lovelight.

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