amative
Example Sentences
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For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now.
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
Mademoiselle de Nevers had some fortune of her own, of course, but it was not large; it was not the feast for which the amative Mantuan had hungered.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
They held that these functions were urinary, reproductive and amative, each separate and distinct in its use from the others.
From Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger
Two qualities, indeed, of his nature he kept in such abeyance, the amative and the humorous—and he was not without a humorous side—as to express but little of them in his writings.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
