amative

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Japanese amative poetry is noted for its delicate fancies and plays on words exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, of translation, or even of expression, to one unacquainted with the language.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

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

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 London, Jack

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

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