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love potion

noun

a magical potion believed to arouse love or sexual passion toward a specified person, especially the person offering it.

love potion

First recorded in 1640–50

Nessus, before expiring, instructed Dejanira how to prepare a love potion for Hercules.

In that casket is a love potion: drink that, you will love your aged bridegroom and be happy once again.

For it is a wonderful love potion and it hath been given to me to use in that very way.

He took the draught she so frankly offered him; he added a love potion of his own concocting, and drank it off.

Would you thus cast me off after causing your love-potion to enter my very marrow, and make me yours for ever, Fenice?

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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