amative

Example Sentences

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There was something in Phillotson's tone now which seemed to show that his three months of remarriage with Sue had somehow not been so satisfactory as his magnanimity or amative patience had anticipated.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

He was amative or constructive, and at the same time he not only possessed but liked to exercise lucidity of thought.

From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire

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 Sanger, Margaret

He was poor; he was amative; he was unsatisfied.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire

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 Whitman, Walt