amative
Example Sentences
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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
He was poor; he was amative; he was unsatisfied.
From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Hilaire Belloc
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 Walt Whitman
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
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
