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

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

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

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