amorist
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
Lovelace is even a better type in his rare good things of the military amorist and poet.
From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang
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 William John Locke
The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
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