amorist

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

Faint amorist, what, dost thou think To taste Love's honey, and not drink One dram of gall? or to devour A world of sweet, and taste no sour?

From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir

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

From The Complex Vision 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