(a) Faithful love or the faithful manifestation of love on the part of one person toward another or between persons, fidelity; genuine love; brotherly love, charity; also, conscientious attention, as of a master to his pupil; (b) faithful love for God or Christ; sincere and genuine devotion; (c) in personifications and reifications; also in definition of true love [1st quot.]; (d) in proverbs and prov. expressions.

(a) Faithful, honorable, and heartfelt romantic love on the part of one person toward another or between persons; the relationship characterized by such love; conjugal fidelity; also, chaste or platonic love between a man and a woman; ~ bende; (b) the behavior conventionally associated with courtly love, love-making as a skill or formal accomplishment; ~ craft; (c) as term of association for turtledoves; (d) in proverbs.

One who is faithfully loved; also, a faithful lover;—also used of the relationship between Christ and a person or a person's soul.

(a) A plant whose leaves and flowers are arranged symmetrically in whorls of four, herb paris (Paris quadrifolia); also, a four-leafed sprig of this plant; ~ gras; (b) ~ knotte, ?a knot formed of two intertwined loops, the truelove knot; (c) a stylized representation of a truelove knot or of herb paris used for ornament; ~ purse, a purse so ornamented; ~ werk, such ornamentation; (d) herb paris or its representation as symbolic of fidelity, devotion, etc.; also, the truelove as a metaphor for Christ or for the foursome of the Trinity and Mary taken together; ~ flour.

As surname.