amative
adjective
disposed to love; amorous.
amativeness
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a word derived from
amative.
Example Sentences
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Belacqua “received such a stunning crack on his eminent coccyx, that little known funny bone of amativeness, that he all but swooned for joy,” Beckett writes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
In thoroughbred Ainu I found the bumps of amativeness, philoprogenitiveness, and tune very well developed.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by A. H. Savage Landor
Brother Dickinson: As to the talk of amativeness, what about our holiness meetings and seaside meetings, where we go to hear woman, and to be moved by her words and her personality?
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It must be amativeness which urges them to go and hear men preach.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Secondly, having settled it to be God's will that man should continue his species, we discovered an organ of amativeness, forthwith.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
