amorist

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

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 Locke, William John

The marquis was a great lord and a brave captain, but long past his first youth; his actions went somewhat too deliberately ever to be roused to the high lunacies of the Sestian amorist.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch

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

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