true love

noun

Etymology: From Middle English trewe love, from Old English trēowlufu.

Faithful love.
“I shall be forsworn, which is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And how can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love, […]”
“When all’s done, what hast thou won Of the only sweet that’s under the sun? Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh Of true love’s least, least ecstasy?”
Faithful love.
“I leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree; But first it bow’d, and fyne it brak, Sae my true love did lightly me.”
“The first day of Christmas My true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree.”
Love that is in some sense purer or more unique than ordinary love.
“Some believe that true love doesn’t exist.”
“And as all true love is reciprocal, so also is true love lasting and indestructible; or, to “speak as a man,” even because it is the very inmost life of humanity, it is, therefore, true unto death.”
Love that is in some sense purer or more unique than ordinary love.
“He was my one true love.”
“Yellow is the colour of my true love’s hair In the morning when we rise.”
Love that is in some sense purer or more unique than ordinary love.
A thing for which a person feels an intense love.
“Cinematography is my only true love.”