amorist
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 John Cowper Powys
That was a bad day's work for Messer Cino the amorist; Apollo and the Muses limped in rags, and Mars was the only God worth thinking about, except on Sundays.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
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 James Branch Cabell
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