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amorist

[am-er-ist] / ˈæm ər ɪst /


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

From Time Magazine Archive

That was a bad day's work for Messer Cino the amorist; Apollo and the Muses limped in rags, and Mars was the only God worth thinking about, except on Sundays.

From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett

From those extraordinary letters of his, to his friends and to his love, we gather that this fierce amorist of Beauty was not without his Philosophy.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

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

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

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


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