amative

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He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

Two qualities, indeed, of his nature he kept in such abeyance, the amative and the humorous—and he was not without a humorous side—as to express but little of them in his writings.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

They held that these functions were urinary, reproductive and amative, each separate and distinct in its use from the others.

From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret

Mademoiselle de Nevers had some fortune of her own, of course, but it was not large; it was not the feast for which the amative Mantuan had hungered.

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

He was poor; he was amative; he was unsatisfied.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire