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In the introductory chapter of this book I alluded briefly to my reasons for calling pure prematrimonial infatuation romantic love, giving some historic precedents for such a use of the word.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

"Romance and Reality," too, is glaringly at variance with conventional romanticism in its satirical contrasting of the prematrimonial and the postmatrimonial view of love and marriage.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

As a mere matter of equity a wife owes her husband no more fidelity than he owes her, and may exact of him, if she chooses, the same prematrimonial purity that he exacts of her.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

But in this case, too, further research has shown that I was justified in using that word to designate pure prematrimonial love.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus