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
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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.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
Japanese amative poetry is noted for its delicate fancies and plays on words exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, of translation, or even of expression, to one unacquainted with the language.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
They held that these functions were urinary, reproductive and amative, each separate and distinct in its use from the others.
From Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger
For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now.
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
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
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