lovedom

== English == === Etymology === From love +‎ -dom; compare kingdom, Christendom. === Noun === lovedom (uncountable) (rare, nonce word) The condition or realm of love. 1884, in Progress, volumes 3-4 (George William Foote), page 270: Naturally — and without, as it seems to me, very much self-sacrifice — he chooses release from lovedom. 2010, Rorry Nighttrain East, Time Share, in the book In the Gliding Sudden: A Book of Poetry & Prose, page 13: It's not the dark–blanked windows across the street at night that on beach Time Shares within our lovedom, blend so right. It's seeing you. Here again. Along venues of simple elegance.