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  • 1816 Peacock Headlong Hall iii, To put his romantic pleasure-grounds under a process
    of improvement.

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  • 1748Anson's Voy. iii. v. 337 An Island, which..may in all these views be truly stiled
    romantic.

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  • 1705 Addison Italy 2 It is so Romantic a Scene, that it has always probably given
    occasion to such Chimerical Relations.

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  • 1978Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 17/2 Partnerships flourish. A romantic attachment is
    possible, but do not take it too seriously.

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  • 1975 J. Plamenatz Karl Marx's Philos. of Man xiv. 400 The idea of romantic love has
    flourished in the same kind of society as the small family. Indeed, this family is
    quite often seen as the creature of romantic love: it is set up by a man and a woman
    who come to love one another and who choose each other as life partners.

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  • 1971 E. Mavor Ladies of Llangollen v. 96 The strange ambivalence of the pre-Freudian
    romantic friendships.

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  • 1966Listener 7 Apr. 509/3 Nowadays, however, educated young West Africans have discovered
    the alleged virtues of romantic love. They stress the idea of marriage being a true
    union of husband and wife as well as an economic partnership. Love will be the most
    important thing when they marry.

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  • 1945New Statesman 23 June 408/3 The book opens with a tale of romantic friendship
    at Oxford in the years following the first great war.

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  • 1942 T. Bailey Pink Camellia vii. 50 The lovemaking was of the purely romantic kind,
    for Cecily would have no other.

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  • 1874 Green Short Hist. vii. Sect.6. 407 The romantic daring of Drake's voyage. . .roused
    a general enthusiasm throughout England.
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