cupboard love

== English == === Noun === cupboard love (uncountable) Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange. 1788, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Knowles April 20, 1788 read in Archibald Constable (editor), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Archibald Constable & Co, and Longman, etc. (1811) p. 103, This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs Thrale was, however, composed equally perhaps of cupboard-love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage. ==== Related terms ==== cupboard faith ==== Translations ====