amorist

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 a la Marguerite.

From When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

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