amorist

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.

From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)