英和和英

名詞

unlove (uncountable)

1. The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.
   • 2005, David Deida, Blue Truth:

     Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses. But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does. Separation is the act of unlove.

   • 2007, John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships:

     How do you experience this sense of unlove in your body? Notice the specific quality of the bodily […] Then see if you can let the feeling of unlove be there just as it is, without trying to fix it, change it, or judge it.

   • 2011, Christopher Uhl, Teaching as if Life Matters:

     All the most intractable problems in human relationships can be traced back to “the mood of unlove,” a deep-seated suspicion most of us harbor […] The mood of unlove that Wellwood describes is pervasive in our culture.

語源 2

From 中期英語 unloven, equivalent to un- (reversal prefix) +‎ love (verb).

動詞

unlove (third-person singular simple present unloves, present participle unloving, simple past and past participle unloved)

1. (transitive) To lose one's love (for someone or something).
   • 1847, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre‎:

     I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me--because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction--because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.

   • 1874, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy‎:

     And now, having once loved, she will be slow to unlove again.

   • 1891 [1711], Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.‎:

     They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him.

参考

• disenamour, fall out of love
• love, enamour, fall in love