love match

American  

noun

1. a marriage entered into for love alone.

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love match British  

noun

1. a betrothal or marriage based on mutual love rather than any other considerations

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Etymology

Origin of love match

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

He’ll even dig up the grave of a suitable love match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Whether Turner and Nist’s love match turns out to be the Real Deal doesn't concern most of us in the long run.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023

He’s also staging it at his Washington company, with an entirely different setting: a D.C. television newsroom, in which the passive-aggressive love match of Beatrice and Benedick is co-anchoring a telecast.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2022

But I hope by the end, she has this humbling redemptive moment where she does find a love match with someone who loves her for her flaws, rather than despite her flaws.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022

Froissart says that the marriage was a love match, and that the king had no knowledge of it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various