different between lovee vs smitten

English

Etymology

love +? -ee

Noun

lovee (plural lovees)

1. One who is loved; a recipient of love.
   • 1999, James R. Ozinga, Altruism (page 11)

     One might even describe a monitored feedback loop that permits one to sense when insufficient loving is returning from the lovee, causing a lessening of the lover's efforts.

   • 2009, Jonar Nader, How to Lose Friends and Infuriate Lovers (page 92)

     It's just that one is the lover, while the other is the lovee. Together, they make love. One has an obligation to nurture, and the other has a duty of care.

English

Etymology

From Middle English smiten, from Old English smiten, ?esmiten, from Proto-Germanic *smitanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *sm?tan? (“to hurl; fling”), equivalent to smite +? -en (past participle ending).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm?t?n/
• Rhymes: -?t?n
• Hyphenation: smit?ten

Adjective

smitten (comparative more smitten, superlative most smitten)

1. Affected by an act of smiting.
   1. Made irrationally enthusiastic.
   2. In love.
      • 1912, Thomas Holmes, “Marriage in the Underworld”, in London's Underworld (The Making of the Modern Law), London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, OCLC 60735063; republished as London; New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84331-219-2, page 118:

        At the end of the long procession came a smitten woman. […] I think of the women who have fastened the tendrils of their heart's affection round unworthy men, and have married them, hoping, trusting and believing that their love and influence would be powerful enough to win the men to sobriety and virtue. Alas! how mistaken they have been!

Translations

See also

• crush
• infatuation
• platonic love

Verb

smitten

1. past participle of smite.

Anagrams

• Mittens, mist net, mistnet, mittens

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

smitten m

1. definite singular of smitte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

smitten m

1. definite singular of smitte