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
Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "amorist", wore his hair in two becoming plaits a la Marguerite.
From When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
I also found amusement in comparing his meek wooing, like that of an early Italian amorist, with his rumbustious theories as to marriage by capture and other primitive methods of bringing woman to heel.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "amorist," wore his hair in two becoming plaits à la Marguerite.
From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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