amorist

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The other, under the title of "Eloisa to Abelard," versifies the Latin letters of that distinguished amorist to her lover.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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

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

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper