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amorist

[am-er-ist] / ˈæm ər ɪst /


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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 à la Marguerite.

From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Lovelace is even a better type in his rare good things of the military amorist and poet. 

From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang

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 John Addington Symonds


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