"cupboard love" meaning in English

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          "text": "1788, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Knowles April 20, 1788 read in Archibald Constable (editor), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Archibald Constable & Co, and Longman, etc. (1811) p. 103,\nThis last and long-enduring passion for Mrs Thrale was, however, composed equally perhaps of cupboard-love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage."
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          "ref": "1818, Thomas Brown, Bath, a satirical novel, page 114",
          "text": "Besides, Sandy includes a little cupboard love in the detail of his sentiments. Nothing can be a more undeniable proof of the truth of this statement than the trials of Mrs. K—— and Mrs. D——. In both instances the lovers were nice, attentive fatherly men.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Hilary Lloyd, A Necessary Killing, UKA Press, page 30",
          "text": "I stump down my field, not the lane past Mike's, and the ewes think it's feeding time. I let them bombard me, grateful for the noisy bleating of their cupboard love.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Neil A. Harris, The Council of Elders: The Halfling Chronicles Book 1, AuthorHouse, page 191",
          "text": "You don't owe them anything Stephen, its just cupboard love...suddenly they need you...you said it yourself, they never contacted you before.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange."
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          "fickle",
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          "pretend",
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          "gain",
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          "useful",
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          "exchange",
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cupboard faith"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "insincere love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "grá don ailp"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "insincere love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange",
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          "word": "grá na hailpe"
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          "text": "1788, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Knowles April 20, 1788 read in Archibald Constable (editor), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Archibald Constable & Co, and Longman, etc. (1811) p. 103,\nThis last and long-enduring passion for Mrs Thrale was, however, composed equally perhaps of cupboard-love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage."
        },
        {
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          "text": "Besides, Sandy includes a little cupboard love in the detail of his sentiments. Nothing can be a more undeniable proof of the truth of this statement than the trials of Mrs. K—— and Mrs. D——. In both instances the lovers were nice, attentive fatherly men.",
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          "text": "I stump down my field, not the lane past Mike's, and the ewes think it's feeding time. I let them bombard me, grateful for the noisy bleating of their cupboard love.",
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          "text": "You don't owe them anything Stephen, its just cupboard love...suddenly they need you...you said it yourself, they never contacted you before.",
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        "Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange."
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      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "insincere love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange",
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      "word": "grá don ailp"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
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      "word": "grá na hailpe"
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  "word": "cupboard love"
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