amorist

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

That was a bad day's work for Messer Cino the amorist; Apollo and the Muses limped in rags, and Mars was the only God worth thinking about, except on Sundays.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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)

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

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper

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