amorist
Example Sentences
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
The marquis was a great lord and a brave captain, but long past his first youth; his actions went somewhat too deliberately ever to be roused to the high lunacies of the Sestian amorist.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch
