amorousness
Example Sentences
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He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children."
From Time Magazine Archive
What the gods give they possibly conceal, for the average reader will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obviously he did need the woman his attitude seemed to show that he needed, some woman of culture, spirit, taste, amorousness; or, at least, he was entitled to dream of her.
From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore
He pictured all the passions of the earth since the Fall, from the devouring amorousness of Time's Revenges to the despotic fantasy of Instans Tyrannus; but he remained himself an Englishman of the middle class.
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Of all those who in Rome had ridiculed and mocked at old Pasquale Capuzzi, with his sordid avarice, his foolish amorousness, his insane jealousy, who did not wish poor tormented Marianna her liberty?
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
