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Platonic Love

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Love between persons of different sexes, in which as being love of soul for soul no sexual passion intermingles; is so named agreeably to the doctrine of Plato, that a man finds his highest happiness when he falls in with another who is his soul's counterpart or complement.

Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Platonic Love'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/platonic-love.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.