lovelight

noun

lovelight

noun

Etymology From love + light.

1

A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.

  • 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[…]1903, L. P. Gratacap, The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars, page 85:
  • 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.1909?, Ambrose Bierce, In the Midst of Life (page 89)

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