amorist

American  

[am-er-ist] / ˈæm ər ɪst /

noun

1. a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.

2. a person who writes about love.

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amorist British  

/ ˈæmərɪst /

noun

1. a lover or a writer about love

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Other Word Forms

• amoristic adjective

Etymology

Origin of amorist

1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist

Example Sentences

It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe.

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Now is the time when man can prove the stuff of which he is made; and the religious amorist, the false mystic, is distinguished from the heroic and long-suffering servant of God.

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The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world.

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Nor is poetry extinguished because the singer deems it his vocation to utter genuine thought, and scorns the rhyming pastimes of the simple amorist.

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The other, under the title of "Eloisa to Abelard," versifies the Latin letters of that distinguished amorist to her lover.

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