amative
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Mademoiselle de Nevers had some fortune of her own, of course, but it was not large; it was not the feast for which the amative Mantuan had hungered.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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 Hilaire Belloc
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 Walt Whitman
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 Jack London
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 Thomas Hardy
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