amative

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

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)

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

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