Meanings
- not comparableIn terms of love; when it comes to love.
It shamed Maylou that she hadn’t done better lovewise for her mama.
1991, Eliza Clark, chapter 15, in Miss You Like Crazy, Toronto: Coach House Press, page 1933 more examples
Life is worth the living since you made it plain to see that lovewise you're perfect for me.
1970 January 29, Joyce Elbert, The Crazy Ladies, Signet Books, page 264Barb finally said, “Did he ever tell you that he thought you and I would make a better twosome, lovewise, than he and I?”
1984, Dan Jenkins, Semi-tough, New York: Atheneum, page 250Things weren't going too well for George either, lovewise. So it took only a few letters to rekindle their longing to see each other again, to sleep together, to appease each other's need, even if only for a few days.
1993 [1988], Benoîte Groult, “Disney World” (chapter 7), in Mo Teitelbaum, transl., Salt on Our Skin, Penguin Books, page 121
Origin
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