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
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Etymology
Origin of amorist
1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist
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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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
Nor is poetry extinguished because the singer deems it his vocation to utter genuine thought, and scorns the rhyming pastimes of the simple amorist.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Faint amorist, what, dost thou think To taste Love's honey, and not drink One dram of gall? or to devour A world of sweet, and taste no sour?
From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sir Philip Sidney
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 Sidney Colvin
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