for love

Related to for love: making love

for love

Purely for one's pleasure or love for someone or something, rather than for money or another such benefit. A truly great player plays for love, not because a win might benefit his bank account the next day.
See also: love
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

(just) for ˈlove/for the ˈlove of something

if you do something for love, you do it without payment or other reward, because you like the work or the person you are working for: She works in the museum during the summer but she doesn’t get paid. She helps for the love of it.
See also: love, of, something
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

for love

Out of compassion; with no thought for a reward: She volunteers at the hospital for love.
See also: love
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • for love/for the love of something
  • just for love
  • play for love
  • love to pieces
  • lover
  • all the world loves a lover
  • the/(one's) mother tongue
  • your mother tongue
  • fall out of love with (someone)
  • drop the L-bomb
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Your children wish you a very Happy Mothers' Day x STAFFORD BECKI To our Yummy Mummy we love you lots from your big boys Cj & Charlie xx STANLEY JESS Happy Mother's Day Mum thanks for everything you do for me enjoy your day lots of love Mia-Leigh xx STEELE MARGI Auntie Happy 'Mother's' Day to the best second mum we could ever wish for love you Karla, Kay, Andrew, David, Chlo, Finley, Amelia, Alexa, Bump xxx STEELE SUESAN Happy Mother's Day to the best mum and man have the best day all our love kirsty Leslie Leo mason Tyler Aaliyah xxx STEPHENS EILEEN To our mum and nana, hope you have the best day because you deserve it.
You are the best dad anyone could wish for love Daz Jake Emily girlsxx WALLY NORTON COVENTRY Our first Father's Day without you miss you always love your daughters and son JOHN O'CONNOR COVENTRY Happy Father's Day, Dad, love from Anais and Macie xxxx ALAN PARNELL COVENTRY Happy Father's Day to the GREATEST Grandad EVER!!
Our attention is never on love itself (how could it be?), but upon the signs of love, the search for love, the location of love.
Pan functions as a substitute for Love: inflamed with passion for Syrinx, who fled from him, he dominated her sexually by making her his "instrument," i.e., not just a "pipe," but a pipe of his own, or "Panpipe." "Putting it in his mouth," he "infused life" into it, enjoying corporeal and spiritual bliss ("he played sweetly").
[128] Much of the advice literature as well as women's fiction advocated the view that only a strong, principled woman, capable of supporting herself, was qualified to look for love and not merely support in a husband.
"Says he was the model for Love Story, created the Internet.
For love would have them stretch beyond the safe comfort of their solitary castles and settled routines, giving up the tight reins they hold on their lives and embracing the awful risk of pain and loss.
And it contains one of Jordan's anthems, "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies." Like her anti-pacifism poem, this one puts her oppressors--and bullies everywhere--on guard: "Be afraid./I plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits/and facial tics." But even in this poem she makes room for love and nature, "impulse and realities/ (the blossoming flamingos of my/wild mimosa trees)."
Western influence has sparked a worldwide increase in marriages for love, a drop in arranged matrimony, more power-sharing arrangements between marriage partners, and greater certainty that passionate lovers can look forward to good times, they hold.
Love you loads from Deacon & Lucas x x x x x OBRIEN MARK Happy Fathers Day to the best dad we could ask for Love Frankie, Matthew & Joel xxx OBRIEN MARK Happy Fathers Day to my lovely Uncle Mark Lots of love, Sarah xxx O'DONOVAN JIMMY happy fathers day grandad x from your great grandson Antony x YNWA x O'HARE JOHN Grandad Happy Fathers day to our amazing grandad hope you have a lovely day,we love you millions.
The druid offers a theocentric ontology of love, arguing that divine creation of the universe calls first for love of the deity; in this view, the love of God takes precedence over romantic love.(75) Silvandre's view, however, is anthropocentric, holding that the lover must believe all things very perfect in the person beloved whom he is to love above all else in the universe,(76) since love is its own center, "and never has a design which does not begin and end in it."(77)