amorist
Example Sentences
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Satiety is the bane of the amorist, and of worse than he.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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
The other, under the title of "Eloisa to Abelard," versifies the Latin letters of that distinguished amorist to her lover.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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 John Cowper Powys
