amative
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of amative
1630–40; < Medieval Latin amātīvus, equivalent to amāt ( us ) (past participle of amāre to love) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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He was poor; he was amative; he was unsatisfied.
From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Hilaire Belloc
Two qualities, indeed, of his nature he kept in such abeyance, the amative and the humorous—and he was not without a humorous side—as to express but little of them in his writings.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
He was amative or constructive, and at the same time he not only possessed but liked to exercise lucidity of thought.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
There was something in Phillotson's tone now which seemed to show that his three months of remarriage with Sue had somehow not been so satisfactory as his magnanimity or amative patience had anticipated.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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