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lovemaking

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love·mak·ing  (lvmkng)
n.
1. Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse.
2. Courtship; wooing.
lovemaking
Noun
1. sexual play and activity between lovers, including sexual intercourse
2. Archaic courtship
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.lovemaking - sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life"
love life, making love, sexual love, love
sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"
lovemaking
noun sexual intercourse, intercourse, intimacy, sexual relations, the other (informal) mating, nookie (slang) copulation, coitus, act of love, carnal knowledge, rumpy-pumpy (slang) coition, sexual union or congress, rumpo (slang)
Translations
lovemaking [ˈlʌvmeɪkɪŋ] n → relaciones fpl sexuales


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"I always had a suspicion that gentleman had a passion for my daughter," said Ricote; "but as I felt sure of my Ricota's virtue it gave me no uneasiness to know that he loved her; for thou must have heard it said, Sancho, that the Morisco women seldom or never engage in amours with the old Christians; and my daughter, who I fancy thought more of being a Christian than of lovemaking, would not trouble herself about the attentions of this heir.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
She puts too much lovemaking into her stories and you know too much is worse than too little.
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
By comparison with this method Hooja's lovemaking might be called thinly veiled.
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