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amorist

[am-er-ist] / ˈæm ər ɪst /


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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys

From those extraordinary letters of his, to his friends and to his love, we gather that this fierce amorist of Beauty was not without his Philosophy.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

The marquis was a great lord and a brave captain, but long past his first youth; his actions went somewhat too deliberately ever to be roused to the high lunacies of the Sestian amorist.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

Without the unique marvel of the mind of Dante, the poetry of Italy is at its highest in the sixteenth century of Tasso and Ariosto, not in the fourteenth century of the subtle amorist Petrarch.

From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker


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