lovemaking
Americannoun
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the act of courting or wooing.
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sexual activity.
noun
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sexual play and activity between lovers, esp including sexual intercourse
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an archaic word for courtship
Etymology
Origin of lovemaking
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at love, making
Example Sentences
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His performance feels awkward at first—like Jason Biggs or Will Ferrell fretting about lovemaking and analysts in a late-era Woody Allen film—but it becomes more convincing as the play progresses, as does the play itself.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
The idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Boys and girls read Lorna Doone; but the girls skip all the fighting, the boys all the lovemaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of the tragedies in the novel result not from too much lovemaking but too much getting even.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, well!—maidens will be maidens, we trow, and lovemaking in the olden time is, we suppose, after all, vastly like the same performance by more modern actors.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
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