a. Forsaken by one’s love; forlorn or pining from love.
1634. Milton, Comus, 234. Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well.
1746. Collins, Ode to Simplicity, 16. By her [sc. the nightingale] whose lovelorn woe [etc.].
1768. Sir W. Jones, Solima, Poems (1777), 5. O’er Azib’s banks while love-lorn damsels rove.
1795[?]. Coleridge, To Nightingale, i. Sister of love-lorn poets, Philomel!
1810. Scott, Lady of L., VI. i. The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream.
1902. Longm. Mag., Aug., 334. Some love-lorn thrush serenaded his mate.
Hence Lovelornness, lovelorn condition.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, lxi. It was the story of that fair Gostanza who in her love-lornness desired to live no longer.
1888. R. A. King, Leal Lass, I. xi. 210. His love-lornness, his sense of self-importance.
