English Explanatory Dictionary

Lovelace

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun
  1. A well-mannered libertine.

Word forms

Lovelace Lovelaces Loveless Lowes Lowess

Etymology

From Middle English lufeless (“loveless”), possibly a nickname for a philanderer. In the libertine sense, refers to Robert Lovelace, a character in Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady.

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