a. [f. LOVER1 + -LESS.] Having no lover, deprived of a lover.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. 64. She paid her faithless suitor the compliment of remaining loverless for three weary months.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xiii. Loverless and inexpectant of love.
1892. Temple Bar, April, 525. Until quite lately she was loverless.
