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 two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Satiety is the bane of the amorist, and of worse than he.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
The marquis was a great lord and a brave captain, but long past his first youth; his actions went somewhat too deliberately ever to be roused to the high lunacies of the Sestian amorist.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch
The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
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