amative
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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 Margaret Sanger
Japanese amative poetry is noted for its delicate fancies and plays on words exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, of translation, or even of expression, to one unacquainted with the language.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
He was amative or constructive, and at the same time he not only possessed but liked to exercise lucidity of thought.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
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 Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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
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