love match
a marriage entered into for love alone.
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How to use love match in a sentence
He wants to move back to Maryland, and the gang thought a love match might make it happen sooner.
Date Lab: They talked for seven hours. On Zoom. Really. | Tanya Ballard Brown | April 15, 2021 | Washington PostFor one, easing the borders between our professional and personal lives during Covid-19 has led more people to explore love matches with people they work with.
Having an office crush can make you happier and more productive | Anne Quito | February 12, 2021 | QuartzShe is by all accounts very fond of him, and her mother Carole is keen to see a love match.'
It was a love-match on both sides; and poor Jacob was never the same after her death.
Considering he had made a second marriage, and a love match at that, this seemed rather strange.
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light | Mary E. Hanshew
She had made early what for want of a better expression we may call a love match, in which she had been bitterly disappointed.
The Makers of Modern Rome | Mrs. (Margaret) OliphantShe brought him a large dower, but he was wealthy and it was a love match.
Life in the War Zone | Gertrude AthertonFor, unlike most Indian marriages, theirs was a true love-match.
Life in an Indian Outpost | Gordon Casserly
British Dictionary definitions for love match
a betrothal or marriage based on mutual love rather than any other considerations
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