soul-love

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soul-love (uncountable)

  1. A deep love that is experienced through the souls of the lovers.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:
      What we do see celebrated in the epic is the "higher" soul-love that is later praised and developed by Plato and Ficino in their allmale academies of Athens and Florence.
    • 1994, Davison L. Budhoo, Night of Destiny: A Novel, page 28:
      It is a soul love. It is the condition that exists when souls merge. What she does for me, she does for herself.