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

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 Sidney, Philip, Sir

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

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 Locke, William John

Without the unique marvel of the mind of Dante, the poetry of Italy is at its highest in the sixteenth century of Tasso and Ariosto, not in the fourteenth century of the subtle amorist Petrarch.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)