amorist
Example Sentences
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
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 Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)