amorist

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Lovelace is even a better type in his rare good things of the military amorist and poet. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

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