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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse.
- noun Courtship; wooing.
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- noun
sexual intercourse - noun dated
courtship ;amorous advances
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Examples
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“The same hormone that we release in lovemaking is also released in childbirth and in breastfeeding — oxytocin,” said doula Gail Tully.
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A child being educated in Catholic schools learns that only gay men and women who abstain from sex are worthy of the sacraments, but that sinful heterosexual lovemaking is transformed by a sacrament (marriage) powerful enough to render the sexual aspect of love a radiant reflection of Christ's love, from which radiance the Vatican insists gay Catholics should be excluded.
Michele Somerville: Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done Michele Somerville 2010
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A child being educated in Catholic schools learns that only gay men and women who abstain from sex are worthy of the sacraments, but that sinful heterosexual lovemaking is transformed by a sacrament (marriage) powerful enough to render the sexual aspect of love a radiant reflection of Christ's love, from which radiance the Vatican insists gay Catholics should be excluded.
Michele Somerville: Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done Michele Somerville 2010
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A child being educated in Catholic schools learns that only gay men and women who abstain from sex are worthy of the sacraments, but that sinful heterosexual lovemaking is transformed by a sacrament (marriage) powerful enough to render the sexual aspect of love a radiant reflection of Christ's love, from which radiance the Vatican insists gay Catholics should be excluded.
Michele Somerville: Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done Michele Somerville 2010
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They writhed their dry skins upon each other, as snakes like doing in lovemaking, with the added novelty of caressing soft, smooth, moist human skin.
Everyone Was In Love 2006
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They writhed their dry skins upon each other, as snakes like doing in lovemaking, with the added novelty of caressing soft, smooth, moist human skin.
Everyone Was In Love 2006
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"True Blood" fits the bill partly in a jokey way, offering the story of backwoods-Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) as if their lovemaking were a socially transgressive act.
Vampires for Snobs 2010
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Stone tries to be weepy and real, but she gets slimed by the movie's take on lovemaking, which is that all good sex begins with a breaking and entering.
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And here when my wife called our lovemaking “the Asian Experience”, I thought she was referring to my small penis.
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Our precious bodies fit together so well that Jesus called lovemaking becoming one flesh -- as indeed it does in many different ways during loving sexual relationships when two otherwise barren persons join to create the miracle of new life.
A FEAR OF WOMEN 2006
Related Words
synonyms (112)
Words with the same meaning
- Amor
- Christian love
- Eros
- Platonic love
- act of love
- admiration
- adoration
- adultery
- affection
- agape
- aphrodisia
- ardency
- ardor
- ass
- attachment
- balling
- bodily love
- brotherly love
- caritas
- carnal knowledge
- carnality
- charity
- climax
- cohabitation
- coition
- coitus
- coitus interruptus
- coldness
- commerce
- congress
- conjugal love
- connection
- copula
- copulation
- coupling
- desire
- devotion
- diddling
- faithful love
- fancy
- fervor
- flame
- flesh
- fleshliness
- fondness
- fornication
- free love
- free-lovism
- frigidity
- heart
- hero worship
- idolatry
- idolism
- idolization
- impotence
- intercourse
- intimacy
- lasciviousness
- libido
- like
- liking
- love
- making it with
- marital relations
- marriage
- marriage act
- married love
- mating
- meat
- onanism
- orgasm
- ovum
- pareunia
- passion
- physical love
- popular regard
- popularity
- potency
- procreation
- regard
- relations
- screwing
- sensuality
- sentiment
- sex
- sex act
- sex drive
- sexiness
- sexual climax
- sexual commerce
- sexual congress
- sexual instinct
- sexual intercourse
- sexual love
- sexual relations
- sexual union
- sexual urge
- sexualism
- sexuality
- shine
- sleeping with
- sperm
- spiritual love
- tender feeling
- tender passion
- truelove
- uxoriousness
- venery
- voluptuousness
- weakness
- worship
- yearning
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