lovedom

Etymology

 * compare kingdom, Christendom

Noun

 * 1)  The condition or realm of love.
 * 2) * 1884, in Progress, volumes 3-4 (George William Foote), page 270:
 * Naturally — and without, as it seems to me, very much self-sacrifice — he chooses release from lovedom.
 * 1) * 2010, Rorry Nighttrain East, Time Share, in the book In the Gliding Sudden: A Book of Poetry & Prose, page 13:
 * It's not the dark–blanked windows
 * across the street at night
 * that on beach Time Shares
 * within our lovedom,
 * blend so right.
 * It's seeing you. Here again. Along
 * venues of simple elegance.
 * venues of simple elegance.