Lovesickly
adj, adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Characterized by or suffering from lovesickness to an uhealthy degree.
"This wretched victim whose once-victorious arms are now rendered impotent by the misunderstanding of a message from his Sin-Par cannot be the real AmadÃs, the Doncel del Mar, the Caballero de la Espada Ardiente, only his lovesickly shadow."
- 1 In a lovesick manner.
"...and, most of all, a romantic figure like Errol Flynn to captain the Sea Hawks, to be loyal to the Queen, to gaze lovesickly into the big, beautiful, cowy, Spanish eyes of Brenda Marshall, to lead his stalwart men (Alan Hale, J. M. Kerrigan, William Lundigan and all the others including an interesting newcomer, David Bruce) into Panama to rob the Spanish, to stand by them and help them escape when they are captured, and finally to slash his way in duel after duel through guard and intriguing lords to his Queen with the plans of the ARMADA."
Example
More examples"...and, most of all, a romantic figure like Errol Flynn to captain the Sea Hawks, to be loyal to the Queen, to gaze lovesickly into the big, beautiful, cowy, Spanish eyes of Brenda Marshall, to lead his stalwart men (Alan Hale, J. M. Kerrigan, William Lundigan and all the others including an interesting newcomer, David Bruce) into Panama to rob the Spanish, to stand by them and help them escape when they are captured, and finally to slash his way in duel after duel through guard and intriguing lords to his Queen with the plans of the ARMADA."
Etymology
From lovesick + -ly.
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