amative

Example Sentences

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They held that these functions were urinary, reproductive and amative, each separate and distinct in its use from the others.

From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret

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

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

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