amorist

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "amorist," wore his hair in two becoming plaits à la Marguerite.

From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

One knows it so well, that particular tone; the tone of the jaded amorist, for whom "the unspeakable rural solitudes" and "the sweet security of streets" mean, both of them, boredom and desolation.

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

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 Cabell, James Branch