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
Etymology
Origin of amorist
1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist
Example Sentences
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was a bad day's work for Messer Cino the amorist; Apollo and the Muses limped in rags, and Mars was the only God worth thinking about, except on Sundays.
From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Lovelace is even a better type in his rare good things of the military amorist and poet.
From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew
The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
Satiety is the bane of the amorist, and of worse than he.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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