amorist

American  

[am-er-ist] / ˈæm ər ɪst /

noun

1. a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.

2. a person who writes about love.

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amorist British  

/ ˈæmərɪst /

noun

1. a lover or a writer about love

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Other Word Forms

• amoristic adjective

Etymology

Origin of amorist

1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist

Example Sentences

The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

One knows it so well, that particular tone; the tone of the jaded amorist, for whom "the unspeakable rural solitudes" and "the sweet security of streets" mean, both of them, boredom and desolation.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

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

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.

From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)