lovesmith

English

Etymology

love +‎ smith

Noun

lovesmith (plural lovesmiths)

1. One who nurtures and spreads love.
   • 1907 October, “Thoughts of the Month”, in The Cambrian, volume 27, number 8:

     Was not Christ a kind of a spiritual lovesmith; and was it not His mission and His mission still, to weld these lovely links together in order to create a true brotherhood of men on earth?

   • 2007, Tess Ward, The Celtic Wheel of the Year: Old Celtic and Christian Prayers:

     Lovesmith divine, may your fiery love purify my life with your compassion as I set out this day.

   • 2016, Laura Berman, Quantum Love:

     We are here to become lovesmiths: to master the art of loving and to live love into existence every single day.

2. An accomplished lover.
   • 1923, The Haberdasher, volume 78, page 77:

     The play deals with an affaire du coeur of the famous lovesmith, Casanova who "had 300 sweethearts, and everyone of them a beauty" —so this episode must be accepted merely as a torrid interlude.

   • 1998, James Kinyanjui Ngubiah, The Love Birds, page 7:

     […] of the lovesmiths of Ngai .

   • 2010, Gabriella Oldham, Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter, page 206:

     Actually, however, the play upon the opening title is not completed until the film's final shot, when the hero, spurned by the girl, allows the police to yank him into jail. It is a sardonic reversal. Locks laugh at lovesmiths, after all.