Of course, unrequited love does happen in real life as well.
The term unrequited love, in particular, carries an intentionally dramatic or romantic connotation to it, in part because the phrase appears so often throughout classic literature and poetry and continues to be a popular theme in books, movies, and music today. The word requite literally means to return or to repay. As a prefix in telegramese to replace not and save the cost of a word, it is attested by 1936.Unrequited love is love that is not mutual or reciprocated one person loves someone who does not love them back. 1600 undreamed-of, 1630s uncome-at-able, 1690s unputdownable, 1947, of a book un-in-one-breath-utterable, Ben Jonson etc., but the habit is not restricted to un- such as put-up-able-with, 1812). It also makes words from phrases (such as uncalled-for, c. It disputes with Latin-derived cognate in- (1) the right to form the negation of certain words ( indigestable/ undigestable, etc.), and though both might be deployed in cooperation to indicate shades of meaning ( unfamous/ infamous), typically they are not. to form compounds with native and imported words.
It underwent a mass extinction in early Middle English, but emerged with renewed vigor 16c. The most prolific of English prefixes, freely and widely used in Old English, where it forms more than 1,000 compounds. Prefix of negation, Old English un-, from Proto-Germanic *un- (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German, German un-, Gothic un-, Dutch on-), from PIE *n- (source of Sanskrit a-, an- "not," Greek a-, an-, Old Irish an-, Latin in-), combining form of PIE root *ne- "not." Often euphemistic (such as untruth for "lie").
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