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

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

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

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

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 McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

Two qualities, indeed, of his nature he kept in such abeyance, the amative and the humorous—and he was not without a humorous side—as to express but little of them in his writings.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various