amorist

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Satiety is the bane of the amorist, and of worse than he.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Nor is poetry extinguished because the singer deems it his vocation to utter genuine thought, and scorns the rhyming pastimes of the simple amorist.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

I also found amusement in comparing his meek wooing, like that of an early Italian amorist, with his rumbustious theories as to marriage by capture and other primitive methods of bringing woman to heel.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

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 Powys, John Cowper