Foe and Lover

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Foe noun – One that is hostile toward another.

Lover is an antonym for foe.

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Lover noun – A person with a strong and habitual liking for something.

Foe is an antonym for lover in person having sexual relationship topic.

Nearby Words: love, loving, lovely, loved, lovable

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human	human foe	human lover
mortal	mortal foe	mortal lover
old	old foe	old lover
particular	particular foe	particular lover
Other adjectives: current, true, dead, real, great, evil, black, dark, former, mysterious, unseen, last, one-time, previous, longtime.

Spider-Man foe Kraven the Hunter's former lover, the now deceased Calypso, was a rather memorable villain herself and a practitioner of voodoo, who clearly could use black magic, apparently having sacrificed her younger sister to gain unholy powers.

Source: Religion Is Magic
Classical Anti-Hero: Seymour, who kills his foe, kills his father figure, kills his lover, then kills himself - all unnecessarily because Poor Communication Kills - all keeping in line with classic Greek tragedy!

Source: Theatre / Little Shop of Horrors
The Beast Within has a more convoluted example: Grace believes that Gerde and Gabriel are somehow involved, but in fact Gerde was Wolfgang's lover, while the nominally heterosexual Gabriel is in fact engaging in some very deliberate Foe Yay with Von Glower.

Source: Video Game / Gabriel Knight

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