amative
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- amatively adverb
- amativeness noun
- unamative adjective
- unamatively adverb
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 amative or constructive, and at the same time he not only possessed but liked to exercise lucidity of thought.
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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.
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As an old man, he denounced carnal pleasure of all kinds, and sought to limit the amative instincts to the one sole end of procreation.
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His skull was sharply cut and fine; with plenty, according to the phrenologists, both of the reflective and amative organs: and his poetry will bear them out.
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Mademoiselle de Nevers had some fortune of her own, of course, but it was not large; it was not the feast for which the amative Mantuan had hungered.
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