amorist

Example Sentences

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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Satiety is the bane of the amorist, and of worse than he.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Lovelace is even a better type in his rare good things of the military amorist and poet. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper