love potion

noun

1. a magical potion believed to arouse love or sexual passion toward a specified person, especially the person offering it.

love potion

noun

1. any drink supposed to arouse sexual love in the one who drinks it

Word History and Origins

Origin of love potion¹

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

Nessus, before expiring, instructed Dejanira how to prepare a love potion for Hercules.

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In that casket is a love potion: drink that, you will love your aged bridegroom and be happy once again.

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For it is a wonderful love potion and it hath been given to me to use in that very way.

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He took the draught she so frankly offered him; he added a love potion of his own concocting, and drank it off.

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Would you thus cast me off after causing your love-potion to enter my very marrow, and make me yours for ever, Fenice?

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