amorist
Americannoun
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a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
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a person who writes about love.
noun
Other Word Forms
- amoristic adjective
Etymology
Origin of amorist
1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist
Example Sentences
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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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The custom of the country and the time sanctioned a freedom of manners, and a frequency of meeting on the part of rustic amorists, of which he was not slow to avail himself.
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He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.
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