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present singular third person reloves · participle present reloving · participle past reloved · past reloved
- obsoletetransitiveTo love in return.
To own for him so familiar and levelling an affection as love, much more to expect to be reloved by him, were not the least saucy presumption man could he guilty of, did not his own commandments make it a duty.
Seraphick Love
1648 August 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Boyle, Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God. […] [Seraphick Love], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1659, →OCLC1 more example
He therefore that begins to love, doth thereby render the person beloved his debtor, and acquires a just right to be beloved by him again, though he should have no other pretence to or interest in his affections; especially if he be one who is much our superior in all endearing perfections and accomplishments; because this must needs render his love more valuable, and consequently augment our obligation to relove him.
1826, John Scott, The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott
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