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
It needs austere telling without a false word or a florid gesture�let alone the director's sudden lovemaking, that smashes The Country Girl to pieces.'
From Time Magazine Archive
In general Shaw was biologically cold: "My pockets are always full of the small change of lovemaking; but it is magic money, not real money."
From Time Magazine Archive
He had always said that a fellow had shown himself a bungler at lovemaking if he were not practically assured of the result before he came to the point of the declaration.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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