amorist
Example Sentences
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
Nor is poetry extinguished because the singer deems it his vocation to utter genuine thought, and scorns the rhyming pastimes of the simple amorist.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
Faint amorist, what, dost thou think To taste Love's honey, and not drink One dram of gall? or to devour A world of sweet, and taste no sour?
From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir
Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "amorist", wore his hair in two becoming plaits a la Marguerite.
From When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
