loverless
adjEtymology From lover + -less.
1
Without a lover.
- Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse.1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
- 1902-1905, Bliss Carman, The Pipes of Pan Forlorn and loverless as the wild sea, / Long have I lain alone, longing for thee […]