Brewer's: Platonic Love

Spiritual love between persons of opposite sexes. It is the friendship of man and woman, without mixture of what is usually called love. Plato strongly advocated this pure affection, and hence its distinctive name.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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