lovelight

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English

Etymology

From love +‎ light.

Noun

lovelight (countable and uncountable, plural lovelights)

  1. A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
    • 1903, L. P. Gratacap, The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars, page 85:
      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 []
    • 1909?, Ambrose Bierce, In the Midst of Life (page 89)
      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.