amorist

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Satiety is the bane of the amorist, and of worse than he.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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

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

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

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