People concerned about creating a just society would use loveness as a guide when setting priorities.

In its extreme form, proponents of the Dataist worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms and believe that humanity's cosmic vocation is to create an all-encompassing data-processing system — and then merge into it.

She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her, murmured Euphemia, extremely well-covered.

Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]