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love match
noun
- a marriage entered into for love alone.
love match
noun
- a betrothal or marriage based on mutual love rather than any other considerations
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Word History and Origins
Origin of love match1
First recorded in 1740–50
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Example Sentences
She is by all accounts very fond of him, and her mother Carole is keen to see a love match.'
From The Daily Beast
It was a love-match on both sides; and poor Jacob was never the same after her death.
From Project Gutenberg
Considering he had made a second marriage, and a love match at that, this seemed rather strange.
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She had made early what for want of a better expression we may call a love match, in which she had been bitterly disappointed.
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She brought him a large dower, but he was wealthy and it was a love match.
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For, unlike most Indian marriages, theirs was a true love-match.
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