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English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English loveday; equivalent to love + day.
Pronunciation
Noun
loveday (plural lovedays)
- (now historical) A day appointed for a meeting intended to amicably resolve a dispute; also the meeting held on such a day.
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:She ledeth þe lawe as hire list · and louedayes maketh / And doth men lese þorw hire loue · þat lawe myȝte wynne.
1983, John Bossy, Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, page 60:legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference […].
1994, John Clarence Bedell, Dispute Settlement and the Control of Violence in England, 1272-1330:In our period, all the people of England made lovedays, from the richest to the poorest.
- (chiefly poetical) A day devoted to love. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From love (“love”) + day.
Pronunciation
Noun
loveday (plural lovedayes)
- loveday (day for dispute resolution)
- (figuratively) Any time of peaceableness.
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