amorousness

Example Sentences

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What the gods give they possibly conceal, for the average reader will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character.

From Time Magazine Archive

He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children."

From Time Magazine Archive

Romance, in American fiction, still means only a somewhat childish amorousness and sentimentality—the love affairs of Paul and Virginia, or the pale adulteries of their elders.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

For Hunt’s undercurrent of friendship and cheerfulness were substituted Byron’s prevailing notes of amorousness and melancholy.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette

It is not only that he added piety to amorousness.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert